 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 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 hare not yet mentioned... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 564 pagina’s
...defended him from the neglect of what are called the unities. The observation, that a quibble was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it, is more pointed than just. Shakspeare cannot be said to have lost the world ; for his fame has not... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 542 pagina’s
...what was absurdly said of Shakspeare, might with some propriety be said of him, ' that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.' In a moral and religious point of view, the character of Fuller is entitled to our veneration, and... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 pagina’s
...what was absurdly said of Shakspeare, might with some propriety be said of him, " that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." In a moral and religious point of view, the character of Fuller is entitled to our veneration, and... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 pagina’s
...what was absurdly said of Shakspeare, might with some propriety be said of him, " that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." In a moral and religious point of view, the character of Fuller is entitled to our veneration, and... | |
 | 1854 - 850 pagina’s
...censures that writer for playing with words upon serious occasions. 'A quibble,' says he, 'was to him the fatal Cleopatra; for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.' It must, however, be remembered, that though the doctor made sturdy efforts to emancipate the drama... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 pagina’s
...censures that writer for playing with words upon serious occasions. 'A quibble,' says he, ' was to him the fatal Cleopatra ; for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.' It must, however, be remembered, that though the doctor made sturdy efforts to emancipate the drama... | |
 | 1857 - 850 pagina’s
...what was absurdly said of Shakspeare, might with some propriety be said of him, " that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost' the world, and was content to lose it." In a moral and religious point of view, the character of Fuller is entitled to our , veneration, and... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 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. — Johnsons Preface to Shakspere. This rule must be extended to a proper name, or any word of import... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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. . . . His histories, being neither tragedies nor comedies, are not subject to any of their laws ; nothing... | |
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