 | Books - 1910 - 482 pages
...traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense, Jet but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...traveler: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense, — let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...traveler: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense, — let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...traveler: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense, — let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished.... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 430 pages
...traveller; he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging knowledge, or exalting aifection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1926 - 392 pages
...traveller; he follows it at all adventures, it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and his fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the flignity or profundity of his disquisition let but... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense, let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished.... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...traveler: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible ... A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...traveller; he follows it at all adventures, it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...whether he be amusing attention with incidents or enchaining it in suspense, let but a quibble spring up before him and he leaves his work un-finished.... | |
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A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. 
