 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 380 str.
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances ; Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with 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 - 708 str.
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances ; Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with 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.
...residuary 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 str.
...Shakspeare, with an English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. •> Had these "Wit-combats," between Shakspearc and Jonson, which Fuller notices, been chronicled... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 338 str.
...higher in learning : solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English manof-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take • Published after Lord Bacon's degradation, and when he was almost universally deserted : an honourable... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 str.
...higher in learning : solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English manof-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take * Published after Lord Bacon's degradation, and when he was almost universally deserted : an honourable... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 str.
...in learn* ing ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 str.
...in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with 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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 str.
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." Fuller, vol. ii. p. 415. ; Jensen. The result of such communications as these, is frequently a close... | |
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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... 
