 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...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." This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's greater solidity. But... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspere, 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." When Fuller says "I behold," he meant with his " mind's eye ;" for he was only eight years of age when... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. VL, 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." Nor shalt thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...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." This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's greater solidity. But... | |
 | 1845 - 410 pages
...but slow in his performances. Shakspere, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter hi sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and...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... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1845 - 398 pages
...performances;' Shakspere, ' like an 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances: Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser thee this neck. Cham. No, I'll none of it : I pr'ythee,...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 Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...higher 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...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and his invention." Enough has been said of this celebrated club by a variety of writers. There can be... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...in learning ; solid, but slow in his performance*. Shukspeure, with the English mon-of war, lesser hU wit and invention.'— rulkr'i Worlhin. Besides the Mermaid, Jonson was a great frequenter of a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 456 pages
...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." We may here remark that the friendship, which had begun before, thus cemented with Jonson, to one of... | |
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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... 
