 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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...all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died A,D. 1616, and was buried at Stratford-upon-Avon, the town of his nativity." Among the crowd... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakenpeare, 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. We may... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...far higher in learning ; solid, but slower in his performances. Shakespeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." " Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...far higher in learning ; solid, but slower in his performances. Shakespeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." " Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare with the English man-of-war, lesser invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakenpeare, 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 <Hed anno Domini 16 . . , and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, thu town of his nativity. We may... | |
 | Robert E. Hunter - 1864 - 296 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." But neither the profits nor pleasures of the theatre, "the feast of reason," nor "the flow of soul"... | |
 | 1856 - 502 pages
...higher in learning, solid but slow in performance ; 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." But they and their debates, their triumphs and defeats, are gone, and have long been past all human... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pages
...in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare, with the English manof-war, lesser liam Shakespeare Ben Jonson's testimony is even still more fervent ; and though not more graphic, is yet more personally... | |
 | Theology - 1865 - 782 pages
...higher bearing, solid but slow in his performances ; Shakspere with the English ruan-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit." That the literary friends did meet we can easily credit, but this vulgar, beastly " merry meeting"... | |
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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... 
