 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 sivua
...THE DRAMATISTS OF SHAKSPERE'S SECOND PERIOD. " MANY were the wit-combats betwixt him and BEN JONSON ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Such is Thomas Fuller's wellknown deseription of the convivial intercourse of Shakspere... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 sivua
...THE DRAMATISTS OF SHAKSPERE'S SECOND PERIOD. " MANY were the wit-combats betwixt him and BEN JONSON ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and...and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of hia wit and invention." Such is Thomas Fuller's wellknown description of the convivial intercourse... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 sivua
...wit-combats between him and Ben Jonson ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon GUILDHALL. 73 and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson, like the...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Friday Street, running parallel with Bread Street, is said to have been anciently inhabited... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 sivua
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. VL, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 sivua
...was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Of these encounters of the keenest intellects not a vestige now remains. The memory of... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 sivua
...Fuller, in speaking of the " Wit Combats " between Shakespeare and Jonson at the " Mermaid Tavern," adds : " Which two, I behold like a Spanish great...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." Dryden writes : " As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 sivua
...the convivial meetings at the Mermaid club, established by Sir Walter Raleigh1 ; and he adds, " whieh two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English...tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quiekness of his wit and invention3." The simile is well chosen, and it eame from a writer who seldom... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 sivua
...and Ben Jonson at the convivial meetings at the Mermaid club, established by Sir Walter Raleigh 2 ; and he adds, " which two I behold like a Spanish great...Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter.in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds 1 See the... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - 1853 - 290 sivua
...far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspere, like an English man of war, lesser in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' Jonson (a warm hearted man, as well as a sterling writer) declares, ' I do love the man... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 sivua
...between him and Shakespeare, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war. Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."1 I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between which... | |
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Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare... 
