 | 1835 - 430 pages
...Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but alow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 pages
...far higher in learning: solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with theEnglish man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." This is a happy simile, with the... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...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 about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of liis wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...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 with all tides, .tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shalt thou, their compeer,... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 328 pages
...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...sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Mr. Leigh Hunt, after quoting this... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...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...sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...former, was built far higher in learning, solic bet slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like tie Utter, are advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Of these encounters of the keenest... | |
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...was buill far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, (like the latter,) lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, and takeadvantageof all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Jonson was a great favorite... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 614 pages
...(.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...sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died anno Domini 1616,* and was... | |
 | Edward Smallwood - 1840 - 106 pages
...built far higher in learning — solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." The contest, indeed, between these... | |
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English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. 
