 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
...far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare— like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing — could turn with...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention.5 " We pointed out to the editor, that Fuller was only eight years old when Shakespeare died,... | |
 | 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 Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 836 pages
...in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare with the English man-of-war, lesser O, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO, and Wridow. TRANIO, BIONDELLO, GRTJMIO, and others, attending. Luc. invention."86 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare, 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 invention1." The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said anything ill'. Connected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare with the English man-of-war, lesser f #i0 invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1859 - 166 pages
...higher in learning, solid, but slow in performances ; Shakespeare, 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." As Fuller was later than this time, he could not speak from his own observation, but we have every... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 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... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Dwellings - 1859 - 396 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 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 with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' This happy illustration could only have been founded on tradition, for Fuller belonged to a later generation;... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, 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. He died anno Domini 16 . . , and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity. This... | |
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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... 
