 | Great Britain - 1865 - 792 pages
...like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shakespeare, like the latter, less in bulk but lighter in sailing,...with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all minds by the quickness of his wit and invention. » * » His learning was very little. * * * So that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 412 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." 72 « Fuller's Worthies, tbl. p. 126, A a a. The following specimens of our poet's wit are poor enough.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 402 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...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and in3ntion.'>69 The Sonnets of Shakespeare, some of which vention."® 89 Fuller's Worthies, fol. p. 126,... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1867 - 702 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.' Beaumont is more rapturous a describer, as becomes one who had personally assisted at the intellectual... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 510 pages
...in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the Englishman of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...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... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...^ 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 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.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
...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. [H&S 11:510] Herford and the Simpsons are sufficiently drawn to the account to place some credence... | |
 | Abraham Moses Klein - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 304 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. - Fuller's Worthies It is inconceivable, finally, that Untermeyer proofread his galleys: 'Clearest... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...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 with all...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention.9 Fuller presents these celebrated wit-combats as a replay of the Spanish Armada, in which... | |
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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... 
