| David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 páginas
...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... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 páginas
...checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapors are to 5 the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalt10 ing affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
| Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 páginas
...to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it N/ is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf...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.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 412 páginas
...read Julius Ccesar or Othello ? He says, with more justice, that a ' quibble [pun] is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapors are to the traveler: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapors are to the traveler: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapors are to the traveler: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 páginas
...vapors are to the tr$y£lflt+-herfollows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of htsrway, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant...irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention... | |
| Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 páginas
...quibbles " occur which Dr Johnson will have it are so fatal to the whole? " 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... | |
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