 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 páginas
...perform." Samuel Johnson, in his Shakespeare (1765), makes the charge, "A quibble is to Shakespeare what 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." William was far from unaware... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 páginas
...come, roundly Warb., Qoin MS., Acting Version Theob., et seq . 1 763, Johns., Daniel (i 870), Vaughan. 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. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | Bharat Tandon - 2003 - 320 páginas
...Nothing, III. i., 34; TheNorton Facsimile, p. 127. 76 OED, p. 2452. 77 '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.' Johnson on Shakespeare, p. 1... | |
 | Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - 2007 - 238 páginas
...decided, expressed with customary vigour, and worth quoting almost in full: 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. It has some malignant power over... | |
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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. 
