 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
 | D. C. Greetham, W. Speed Hill, Peter Shillingsburg - 1996 - 528 pagina’s
...scholars had hardly ever pointed out. As Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote, "A quibble was to Shakespeare the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it"; I suggest that Shakespeare might be replaced with Soseki in this context. (Soseki was indeed a punster.)... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - 1996 - 346 pagina’s
...Johnson ranked among Shakespeare's faults his susceptibility to "the quibble": "A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the World and was content to lose it" (Johnson, in Kermode 89). While Johnson introduces Cleopatra here simply as a local metaphor for what... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pagina’s
...beyond the point where it warranted praise hence the indulgence in quibbles, or "fatal Cleopatra[s] for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it" (p. 74). Johnson praises comedy, and he criticizes tragedy. But the scene, not the play, is the unit... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 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. (Vickers, v. 68) Today Shakespeare's quibbles, often cut in production, may seem trivial and tedious;... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 812 pagina’s
...1962: I 178-9) or Dr Johnson, a century later, censures Shakespeare, because 'a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it' (1765: 23-4). In lamenting Milton's propensity to pun, Addison portrays it as the vice of an age now... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 424 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:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 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 (JV. E. £>.): Of uncertain origin; Wedgwood, E. Muller, and Skeat think... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 pagina’s
...says of ' the malignant power ' which a quibble had over the mind of Shakespeare, to whom it was ' the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it ' ; I recall that he could make dying men play nicely with their names ; and yet with all this in mind,... | |
 | Justus George Lawler - 2004 - 264 pagina’s
...but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. ... A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." embittered and venomous castigators, far out-protestantizing such incensed polemicists as another contemporary,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pagina’s
...considered this a vice and said so at length, culminating in the judgement that 'A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it',34 thus turning Shakespeare into a latterday Mark Antony. Wordplay in the early comedies is especially... | |
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