 | Jean I. Marsden - Drama - 1995 - 214 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... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - Drama - 1996 - 346 pages
...traveller; he follows it at all adventure; 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 . . . gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason,... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
..."this great poet," he too is carried away. The brilliant passage on Shakespeare's love of a pun — "It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible" — runs on and on, in a cascade of images, until it conjures up a fatal, and preposterous, Cleopatra... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 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... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Allusions - 2003 - 332 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 his mind, and tts fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether... | |
 | Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - History - 2007 - 238 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 is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 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.... | |
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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. 
