 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....  Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and Wisdom - Pagina 173door William Swinton - 1864 - 302 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | David Booth - 1831 - 366 pagina’s
...was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it." Notwithstanding this severe denounciation there have been Puns so indicative of Genius as to be well... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 616 pagina’s
...soft and pathetic, without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation : a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected : when he found... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pagina’s
...content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pagina’s
...content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble"1 was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. — Johnson's Preface to Shakspeare. In this passage quibble is evidently the principal subject; it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pagina’s
...was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the to time I will commit; Only shape thou thy silence to my wit. Cap. Be yo It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer,! have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pagina’s
...was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.) For his other deviations from the art of writing, I resign him to critical justice, without making... | |
 | 1839 - 372 pagina’s
...that if he did, the strong pleasure of evolving his own personal impressions was " the fatal Capua for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." Shakspeare manages the matter differently ; he never describes the appearance of his heroines, but... | |
 | 1840 - 582 pagina’s
...peculiarities he has in common with his great predecessor, as for instance his " puns," the Cleopatras for which he lost the world and was content to lose it — our author has one which rivals the ovn; of Homer or the "Roam hither then" of Shakspeare. Lord... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pagina’s
...content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defect* of this writer, 1 have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Spencer Hall - 1841 - 48 pagina’s
...symbols of intellectual worship. May I be permitted also to add one question as to his quibbles—" the fatal Cleopatra. for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." Allow the custom of the age ; admit the propensity of the writer. But are they all his own ? Are none... | |
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