 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pagini
...is to Shakspere, what luminous vapours a're to the traveller ; he follows it' at all adventures ; ff is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge, or exalting affeftion, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pagini
...counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted bysudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspeare, what luminous...whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense, let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pagini
...are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. " A quibble is, to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows...it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulph him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pagini
...or the crosses of love. What he does best, he soon ceases to do. He is not long soft and pathetick without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation....irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge, or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pagini
...and pathetick without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation. He no sooner begins to more, than he counteracts himself; and terror and pity,...malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irre- • sistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pagini
...traveller ; he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to ingulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pagini
...fall of greatness, the danger of innocence, or the crosses of love. He is not long soft and pathetick without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation....irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pagini
...they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pagini
...or the crosses of love. What he does best, he soon ceases to do.* lie is not long soft and pathctick without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation....It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fuscinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions, whether... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pagini
...fall of greatness, the danger of innocence, or the crosses of love. He is not long soft and pathetick without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation....irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
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A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. 
