 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pagina’s
...whom Johnson dared not criticise with honest boldness. 'A quibble,' he writes, 'was to Shakespeare the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it8.' No one has bestowed loftier praise on Milton than Johnson, no one has done him more 'illustrious... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 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... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1889 - 548 pagina’s
...becomes horrible; besides which, Shakespeare, to whom »a quibble«, as Dr. Johnson says, »was the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it« , has enervated the dialogue with many frigid conceits, which he has, with more than usual impropriety,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 456 pagina’s
...words were pronounced alike. 'A quibble,' says Dr Johnson, in his Preface, ' was to Shakespeare the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.' — ED. 118. Brat] MURRAY (NE Z>.) : Of uncertain origin; Wedgwood, E. Mailer, and Skeat think it the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 462 pagina’s
...words were pronounced alike. 'A quibble,' says Dr Johnson, in his Preface, ' was to Shakespeare the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.'—ED. 118. Brat] MURRAY (IV. ED): Of uncertain origin; Wedgwood, E. MOller, and Skeat think it... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 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. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 438 pagina’s
...malignant power over [Shakespeare's] mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. It was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.' — ED. 29. past care, etc.] MALONE : 'Things past redress are now with me past care.' — Rich. II:... | |
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