...of wit;" and I feel sure that those who remember Johnson's remark, " that a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it," will admit that I have some grounds for my belief. Besides, have we not Aubrey's report of his " very...

...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" * Of course, with regard to this last sentence, the retort on the critic is obvious, that for the sake...

...dead puns that occur to me, from Shakespeare. Johnson asserts that a quibble was to Shakespeare he fatal Cleopatra for which he lost .the world, and...vast deal of mere burly assertion and paradox about iti, And I believe the question of Shakespeare's quibbles is now pretty much at rest. In "As You Like...

...incorrect as it is highly coloured and eulogistic. It was said of Thomas Fuller, that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ; and we fear that, with equal propriety, it may be said of Lord Macaulay, that antithesis is the Cleopatra...

...mere " quibble" which allured him from the " dignity and profundity of his disquisitions," nor the "Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it,' ' but it was the aroma which sprung from the blossoms of his genius and the flowers of his philanthropy....

...Macaulay 's ' heroworship,' as Dr. Johnson says of Shakespeare's liking for a quibble, that ' it was the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, a*nd was content to lose it,' 1 this weakness must surely be termed a most serious fault in his history. His warmest admirers will...

...content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety,. and truth. A quibble was to him the e is not a lion. /l"t. Nay, you must name his name, and half his face mu It wil! be though! strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this wFiterTTbavc not yet mentioned...

...Johnson says that a quibble had ' a malignant power over Shakespeare's mind,' and that it was to him 'the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ;' so that I do not object to a pun here as beneath the dignity of the Doge or of the occasion, but...

...Johnson says that a quibble had 'a malignant power over Shakespeare's mind,' and that it was to him ' the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ;' so that I do not object to a pun here as beneath the dignity of the Doge or of the occasion, but...

...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. Works, v. n8. YET it must be at last confessed that, as we owe every thing to him, he owes something...