 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...the English man-of war. lesser in bulk, but lighter in gulling, could turn with all tides, tack about invention.1 — t'ulltr't H'orthia. llcsidesthe Mermaid. Joneon waa a great f requcnter of a club called... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1851 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...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." Of these encounters of the keenest intellects not a vestige now remains. The memory of Fuller, perhaps,... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...an English man of- war, lesser in bulk, but higher in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Frauds Meres, MA, now publishes his "noted schoolbook." called " Wit's Treasury," which is a collection... | |
 | Shopkeeper, Robert Kemp Philp - Retail trade - 1853 - 264 pages
...Shakspere, like the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, would turn with all the tides, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." It is probable that from about the year 1605 Shakspere ceased to be a player, though he continued to... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - English literature - 1853 - 288 pages
...an Englishman 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.' Jonson (a warm hearted man, as well as a sterling writer) declares, ' I do love the man and honor his... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...the English manof-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."1 I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...the English manof-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."i I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...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 shalt thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
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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... 
