 | William John Thoms - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...of odd quirks and remnants of wit;" and I feel sure that those who remember Johnson's remark, " that a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it," will admit that I have some grounds for my belief. Besides, have we not Aubrey's report of his " very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...even if she did, the worst that can be urged is that a pun was to Shakespeare, in Dr Johnson's words, the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. It is one of his idiosyncrasies and we must put up with it. Has he not himself taught us that a friend... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 750
...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,...quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he Jost the world. and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 996
...or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was than your lion, living ; and we ought to look to it....Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must wil! be though! strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this wFiterTTbavc not yet mentioned Kis... | |
 | George Wilkes - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...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." To these remarks I will only add that, to me, Shakespeare in comedy has frequently seemed to be only... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...Macaulay 's ' heroworship,' as Dr. Johnson says of Shakespeare's liking for a quibble, that ' it was the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, a*nd was content to lose it,' 1 this weakness must surely be termed a most serious fault in his history. His warmest admirers will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...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. Works, v. n8. YET it must be at last confessed that, as we owe every thing to him, he owes something... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...Bassanio. Dr Johnson says that a quibble had 'a malignant power over Shakespeare's mind,' and that it was to him ' the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ;' so that I do not object to a pun here as beneath the dignity of the Doge or of the occasion, but... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...Bassanio. Dr Johnson says that a quibble had ' a malignant power over Shakespeare's mind,' and that it was to him 'the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ;' so that I do not object to a pun here as beneath the dignity of the Doge or of the occasion, but... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...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." Notwithstanding this severe denounciation there have been Puns so indicative of Genius as to be well... | |
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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... 
