 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 sivua
...he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him are will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 sivua
...golden apple are converted into the renowned queen of Egypt : for " a quihhle is to him (Shakspeare) the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it!" Shakspeare lost the world ! He won it in an age of intellectual giants — the Anakims of mind were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 sivua
...golden apple are converted into the renowned queen of Egypt : for " a qiiibble is to him (Shakspeare) the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it!" Shakspeare lost the world ! He won it in an age of intellectual giants-^the Anukiins of mind were then... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 sivua
...he 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 - 634 sivua
...long 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 himself... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 sivua
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 sivua
...he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him ap, to time I will commit; Only shape thou thy silence to my wit. Cap. Be you h will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer,! have not yet mentioned his... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 sivua
...was 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 - 1838 - 1130 sivua
...was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, c tod truth. A quibble was to him y service, an ta lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating tia defects of this writer, I have not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 sivua
...he 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... | |
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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.... 
