 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition,...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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition,...for which he will always turn aside from his career, ts or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalt10 ing affection, whether he be amusing attention with incidents...he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and 15 barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalt10 ing affection, whether he be amusing attention with incidents or enchaining it in suspense,... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - Drama - 1906 - 328 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition,...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 Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - Literature - 1910 - 638 pages
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition,...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... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 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 - Drama - 1967 - 308 pages
...who despised puns, thought that a verbal quibble had 'some malignant power' over Shakespeare's mind : Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition,...whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchanting it in suspense, let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished,... | |
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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.... 
