I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could... Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials - Página 35por Charles Lamb - 1855Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1835 - 432 páginas
...learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in hulk, hut lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack...and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of liis wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 páginas
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more cordial laugh, with which thou wert wont to make the old Cloisters... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 páginas
...Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. VL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
| Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 páginas
...like the former, was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Mr. Leigh Hunt, after quoting this passage in the Indicator, adds, — " This is a happy simile, with... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 páginas
...former, was built far higher in learning, solic bet slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like tie Utter, are Of these encounters of the keenest intellects not a vestige now remains. The memory ol Fuller, perhaps,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 páginas
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more cordial laugh, with which thou wert wont to make the old Cloisters... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 614 páginas
...(.like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died anno Domini 1616,* and was buried at Stratfordupon-Avon, the town of his nativity. MICHAEL... | |
| Edward Smallwood - 1840 - 106 páginas
...built far higher in learning — solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." The contest, indeed, between these master-dramatists must have been, in almost every respect, strikingly... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 páginas
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." When Fuller says " I behold," he meant with his " mind's eye ;" for he was only eight years of age... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 páginas
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning: solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's greater solidity. But... | |
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