 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...  Studies of Shakspere - Page 452by Charles Knight - 1868 - 560 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 456 pages
...higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performance. 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. He died anno Domini 1616, and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity — Fuller.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." The following particulars are transcribed from Oldys' MS. additions to. Langbaine. Oldys, like Spence,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...learning; solid, but " slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English " man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could , • turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."* I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...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." The Poet kept up his interest in the affairs of the company, and spent more or less of his time in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 548 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." The following particulars are transcribed from Oldys* MS additions to Langbaine. Oldys, like Spence,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 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." " His name," says Lord Clarendon," " can never be forgotten ; having by his very good learning, and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 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." " His name," says Lord Clarendon," " can never be forgotten ; having by his very good learning, and... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances, Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." Fuller, vol. ii. p. 415. These " wit-combates" then (on which Mr. Malone founds a charge of hostility,)... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 588 pages
...the former, was built far higher in learning — solid, hut slow in his performances : Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing,...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Who that now sips his Claret at Crockford's would not prefer to have dropt in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
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