Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with... The Plays of Shakespeare - Página 14por William Shakespeare - 1858 - 40 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 páginas
...MANY were the wit-combats betwixt him and BEN JONSON ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English manof-war : Master Jonson (like the...and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of hia wit and invention." Such is Thomas Fuller's wellknown description of the convivial intercourse... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 páginas
...established by Sir Walter Raleigh1 ; and he adds, " whieh two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war : Master Jonson, like the...tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quiekness of his wit and invention3." The simile is well chosen, and it eame from a writer who seldom... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 páginas
...between him and Shakespeare, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war. Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."i I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 páginas
...between him and Shakespeare, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war. Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."i I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 668 páginas
...current in his own time, has preserved a memorial. " Many," he says, " were the wit-combates betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."16 " Worthies, p. 126, A aa, ed. fol. — After reading the above passage of Fuller, how... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 páginas
...Worthies " preserved by Fuller, who, speaking of Shakespeare, says, " Many were the wit-combates betwixt liam invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 páginas
...established by Sir Walter Raleigh ' ; and he adds, " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war: Master Jonson, like the...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention1." The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said anything ill'. Connected... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 páginas
...Many were the wit combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson. Which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died anno Domini 16 . . , and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 páginas
...' were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' This happy illustration could only have been founded on tradition, for Fuller belonged... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 páginas
...líen Jonson, which two I behold Шее a Spanish great gallion and an English man-of-war ; — MasU-r 0 invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
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