 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 str.
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention1." The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said anything ill'. Connected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 str.
...higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 832 str.
...higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare with the English man-of-war, ǟ -H F I:y gz Ćѣ r ? / oM< ~= ֍ Y5h i0 y~7... J -y jӋ Ѭ$ T 8 2/O<| j ԼJ $5yp҉j^ 0nx 4\ @ [% : y invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 str.
...higher in learning : solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's greater solidity. But... | |
 | 1885 - 1098 str.
...Shakespeare to an English man-of-war, " lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, tacking about, and taking advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." It is just this quickness of wit and invention which is the special characteristic of both Benedick... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 str.
...o/Kf £fe ^ A '^JKi' ^' 34. L'Estrange's anecdote of Shakespeare and Jonson, 1629-55. lish man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died Anno Domini 16... and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity.13 'Which... | |
 | Charles Martindale - 1990 - 340 str.
...Spanish great galleon... was built far higher in learning', and Shakespeare like an English man of war 'could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention'.7 It may be unfair to Jonson, but it is an admirable description of the difference between... | |
 | James Shapiro - 1991 - 234 str.
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English Man of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. [H&S 11:510] Herford and the Simpsons are sufficiently drawn to the account to place some credence... | |
 | Abraham Moses Klein - 1994 - 304 str.
...far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. - Fuller's Worthies It is inconceivable, finally, that Untermeyer proofread his galleys: 'Clearest... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - 1996 - 340 str.
...(like the former) was built far higher in Learning; Solid, but Slow, in his performances. Shake-spear, with the English man of War, lesser in Bulk, but lighter...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention.9 Fuller presents these celebrated wit-combats as a replay of the Spanish Armada, in which... | |
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I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could... 
