 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
 | 1845 - 570 str.
...the 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." When Fuller says "I behold," he meant with his " mind's eye ;" for he was only eight years of age when... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 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. He died anno Domini 16.., and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity. We may add... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 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." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 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... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1845 - 398 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 now muddles away his mornings at White's would not rather have dropped in at... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 str.
...Master Jonson was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances ; Shakspeare, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Fuller speaks further of Ben, as a man whose parts " were not so ready to run of themselves as able... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 str.
...Master Jonson was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances ; Shakspeare, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Fuller speaks further of Ben, as a man whose parts " were not so ready to run of themselves as able... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 str.
...English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, he hangman ;* for, I know, thou worship's! saint Nicholas as tr invention."2 The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said any thing ill.* Connected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 456 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." We may here remark that the friendship, which had begun before, thus cemented with Jonson, to one of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 str.
...Shakspere, 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." Few would imagine that a passage such as this should have been produced to prove that there was a quarrel... | |
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