 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...and 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 lie ha*, with more than usual impropriety,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 728
...and 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...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,...and established by the joint authority of poets and of criticks. For his other deviations from the art of writing, I resign him to critical justice, without... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...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,...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. * "But the admirers of thie great poet have never less reason to indulge their hope* of supreme excellence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...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,...and established by the joint authority of poets and criticks. For his other deviations from the art of writing, 1 resign him to critical justice, without... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...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,...and established by the joint authority of poets and of critics. ' For his other deviations from the art of writing I resign him to critical justice, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...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,...and established by the joint authority of poets and criticks.. For liis other deviations from the art of writing, I resign him to critical justice, without... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...barren as it is, gave him such (delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reasoti, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal...content to lose it. ' It will be thought strange, that iti enumerating the defects of this writer I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the Unities ; his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...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,...instituted and established by the joint authority of poet* and of critics. For his other deviations from the art of writing, I resign him to critical justice,... | |
 | 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 838
...Shakespeare. He is precisely such a Shakespeare as entered into Dr Johnson's imagination when he said. " A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which...he lost the world, and was content to lose it." It must be confessed that although most of Mi- Planches extravaganzas are published, there is not one... | |
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... let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. 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... 
