 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 páginas
...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...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disposition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 páginas
...contemptible equivocation. ... A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller. ... It is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire. .... Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions .... let but a quibble spring up before... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 páginas
...quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapors are to the traveler; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disposition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 384 páginas
...to them what Dr. Johnson says it was to the great dramatist: "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 his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 páginas
...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...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 páginas
...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...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 páginas
...is to Shakespeare what luminous vapors are to 5 the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it 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 exalt10 ing affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 páginas
...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...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he | be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1909 - 418 páginas
...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.' He forgets that when punning was first invented its attraction was irresistible, and that at least... | |
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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. 
