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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. "
The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 265
by William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson - 1803
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspere, what luminous vapours a're to the traveller ; he follows it' at all adventures ; ff is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...they are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakefpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows...irrefiftible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his difquiiition, whether he be enlarging knowledge, or exalting affection, whether he be am ufmg attention...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...vulgar ideas difappoint the attention, to which they are recommended by fonorous epithets and fwelling figures. But the admirers of this great poet have...malignant power over his mind, and its fafcinations are irrefiftibk. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his difquifition, whether he be enlarging knowledge...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 1

English literature - 1797 - 666 pages
...mind, are checked and blafted by uidden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakelpeare what luminous vapoi:rs are to the traveller; he follows it at. all adventures;...to lead him out of his way, and fure to engulf him jn the mire. Jt lus fome malignant power over his mind, and its fafcinations are irreiiftible. Whatever...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....

William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...equivocation. He no fooner begins to move, than he counteracts himfelf ; and terror and pity, as they are rifmg in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity....malignant power over his mind, and its fafcinations are irrefilHble. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his difquifition, whether he be enlarging knowledge...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafled by fudden frigidity. f A quibble is to Shakefpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures i it is fure to lead him out of his way, and fure to engulf him in the mire. It has fome malignant...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted bysudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspeare, 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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The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare: Printed Complete, with D. Samuel ...

William Shakespeare - 1802 - 412 pages
...they are riling in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakefpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows...It has fome malignant power over his mind, and its faicinations are irrefiftible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his difquifition, whether he...
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...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 it at all adventures : it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulph him in the mire. It has some malignant power over...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspeare, 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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