 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances ; Shake-spear, 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." Having established... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare— 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.5 " We pointed... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 478 pages
...former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with an English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in...sailing, could turn with all tides, and take advantage of att winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Had these " Wit-combats," between Shakspeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare with the English man-of-war, at thy f #i0 tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."66 We now come... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 832 pages
...higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shake-speare 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."66 We now come... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare, 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 invention1." The simile... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...higher Bl learning ; solid, but slow In his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser In bulk, but lighter In sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of an wlaJm, by UK quickness of bis wit and Invention."— fuUer'i IfortUa.... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1859 - 166 pages
...far higher in learning, solid, but slow in performances ; Shakespeare, 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." As Fuller was... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...higher in learning : solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, 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." This is a... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1859 - 508 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, 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." I before observed,... | |
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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. 
