 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 Seiten
...innocence, or the crosses of love. What he does best, he soon ceases to do. He is not long soft and pathetic aie irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 Seiten
...which they are recommended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures. A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows...it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to ingulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 Seiten
...luminous vapors are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of the way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some...profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging knowlege or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchanting it in... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 Seiten
...who long had warr'd with modern Huns, Their Quibbles routed, and defy'd their Puns. (Pope's Miscell.) A quibble is to Shakspeare , what luminous vapours...it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of hie way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. (Johnson's Рте/, to Shaksp.) Mean time he smoaks ,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 Seiten
...luminous vapors are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures j it is sure to lead him out of the way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some...profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging knowlege or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchantine it in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 Seiten
...luminous vapors are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to Jead him out of the way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some...profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging knowlege or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchanting it ifi... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 Seiten
...them to be in real wit and humor. 'A quibble is to Shakspeare,' says Johnson, ( what luminous vapors are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures...out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.' What is thus absurdly applied to Shakspeare is literally true of Mr. Hood. Once caught by a play on... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 Seiten
...due proportion. Trials, "| in this state of being, are the lot of man. A quibble"] is to Shakspere, what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows...it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulph him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible.... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 Seiten
...He no sooner begins to move than he counteracts himself ; and terror and pity, as they are rising up in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity....mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and ita fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 Seiten
...equivocations." "A quibble," says the Doctor, who had somewhat ponderous notions of humour, "is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be arousing attention... | |
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A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. 
