 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...  Curiosities of Literature - Strana 139autor/autoři: Isaac Disraeli - 1807Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 str.
...English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all 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... | |
 | 1837 - 588 str.
...Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Who that now sips his Claret at Crockford's would not prefer to have dropt in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
 | 1822 - 492 str.
...English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, that could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." Who that insipidly sips Noyau at White's, would not prefer to have dropped in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 str.
...war, '• lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack " about and lake advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit " and invention."* I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas, between... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 str.
...former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with an English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in...and invention. •> Had these "Wit-combats," between Shakspearc and Jonson, which Fuller notices, been chronicled by some faithful Bosnell of the age, our... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 str.
...Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." This farfetched simile of the quaint biographer is no very happy illustration of conversational powers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 str.
...legatees , he gives " all the rest of his goods , chattels , leases , plate , j«wels, etc." tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention. " This farfetched simile of the quaint biographer is no very happy illustration of conversational powers... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 402 str.
...Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." This farfetched simile of the quaint biographer is no very happy illustration of conversational powers... | |
 | 1826 - 372 str.
...Shakespeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." With what delight should we have hung over any well authenticated instances of these " wit-combats... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 332 str.
...honourable memorial of the fallen greatness of the one, and of the independence of the other.— EDITOR. advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's great solidity. But... | |
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