 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...  History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun - Page 268by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 832 pages
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare 8 invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...Spanish great galli-on and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the former, was built br higher Bl learning ; solid, but slow In his performances. Shakspeare,...with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of an wlaJm, by UK quickness of bis wit and Invention."— fuUer'i IfortUa. Trust him not : Ms word?,... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 510 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the Englishman of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...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
...$'ir\ ; Ai& o/Kf £fe ^ A '^JKi' ^' 34. L'Estrange's anecdote of Shakespeare and Jonson, 1629-55. lish man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing,...advantage of 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... | |
 | 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
...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...advantage of 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... | |
 | Abraham Moses Klein - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 304 pages
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. - Fuller's Worthies It is inconceivable, finally, that Untermeyer proofread his galleys:... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...higher 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...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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances; Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention'. Thomas Plume, around 1657, said Shakespeare was a glover's son and that 'Will was a good... | |
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