 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 lapas
...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 it at all adventures it is sure .to lead him out of his way, and sure to ingulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 366 lapas
...associated, in the works of the early English writers. " A quibble," says Dr. Johnson, " 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 engulph him in the mire. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 lapas
...they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspeare, and a maid : So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: Ttiy love ne'er alte sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 lapas
...they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspeare, or. Rot. Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind ? Orl. I can live sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 lapas
...Huns, Their Quibbles routed, and defy'd their Puns. (Pope's Miscell.) 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 hie way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. (Johnson's Рте/, to Shaksp.)... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 lapas
...due proportion. Trials, "| in this state of being, are the lot of man. A quibble"] is to Shakspere, 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... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 lapas
...are rising up 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 lapas
...equivocations." "A quibble," says the Doctor, who had somewhat ponderous notions of humour, "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. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 lapas
...following passage is as unhappily true as it is forcibly expressed :•—• " 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 the way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 lapas
...cannot point it out to others with equal Rambler, No. 68. Shakespeare : 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. It has some malignant power over... | |
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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. 
