 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances ; Shake-spear, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Having established the fact of their firm friendship, cordial intimacy, and constant intercourse, let... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances ; Shake-spear, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Having established the fact of their firm friendship, cordial intimacy, and constant intercourse, let... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 668 pages
...far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."16 " Worthies, p. 126, A aa, ed. fol. — After reading the above passage of Fuller, how... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1857 - 232 pages
...far higher in learning — solid, but slow in his performances : Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Who that now sips his claret at White's would not prefer to have dropped in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 190 pages
...slow in his performances. Shakespeare — like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailingcould turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage...all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention/ " We pointed out to the editor, that Fuller was only eight years old when Shakespeare died, and therefore... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 510 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the Englishman of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quick ness of his Wit and Invention." But in spite of these odious comparisons of cotemporary critics... | |
 | England - 1885 - 1098 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 340 pages
...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 - English drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...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. [H&S 11:510] Herford and the Simpsons are sufficiently drawn to the account to place some credence... | |
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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... 
