 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...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 engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...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 engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 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 engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pages
...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 N/ is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...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 engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 412 pages
...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 it at all adventures — it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.' He forgets that when punning... | |
 | Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1877 - 430 pages
...preface, has a few sound and striking remarks on this point. " A quibble," he says, " 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 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. 
