 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...ingulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...incidents, or enchanting it in suspense, let but a quibble spring reassess DR. JOHNSON 3 PREFACE. Ixxi up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished....he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...and its fascinations aie irresistible Whatever he the dignity or profundity of his dij>i|uisitions, request you, or, I would intreat you, not to fear,...tremble: my life for yours. If you think 1 come h enchanting it in suspense, let bui a quibble spring up before aim, and he leaves his work unfinished.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection,...he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pages
...tedious ; his set speeches are commonly cold and weak ; a quibble has a malignant power over his mind, it is " the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation." Some of Johnson's censures are just, but it is evident that from his eighteenth... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - Botanists - 1889 - 508 pages
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistable. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition,...amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspence, — let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 pages
...mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disposition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection,...he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pages
...sure to engulf him in the mire. .... Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions .... let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished " (p. xli). And, to pass over the coarse jests and contemptible quibbles, what shall we say to a conceit... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1893 - 160 pages
...tedious ; his set speeches are commonly cold and weak ; a quibble has a malignant power over his mind, it is " the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation ". Some of Johnson's censures are just, but it is evident that from his eighteenth... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 454 pages
...mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disposition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection,...he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content... | |
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A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth.... 
