 | 1831 - 460 pages
...learning—solid, but slow in bis performances ; Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in Bailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." \frho that now sips his Novau at White's, but would prefer to have dropt in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 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...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 pages
...higher in learning: solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with theEnglish 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... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...far higher in learning, solid, but alow in his performances. CVL, 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 shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in hulk, hut lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack...and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of liis wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 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." Mr. Leigh Hunt, after quoting this passage in the Indicator, adds, — " This is a happy simile, with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...built far higher in learning, solic bet slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like tie Utter, lesser @E 1 Of these encounters of the keenest intellects not a vestige now remains. The memory ol Fuller, perhaps,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 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 shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 614 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 Dommi 1616,* and was buried at Stratfordupon-Avon, the town of his nativity. MICHAEL DRAYTON,... | |
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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... 
