 A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth....  The London Magazine - Страница 681823Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | 1856 - 838 страница
...Shakespeare as entered into Dr Johnson's imagination when he said. " A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." It must be confessed that although most of Mi- Planches extravaganzas are published, there is not one... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 страница
...content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the 'fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 страница
...content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 страница
...content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 страница
...content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 страница
...content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. ,. .• It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 страница
...content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal hat gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward? Is death to It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 страница
...content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 страница
...content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 страница
...apple are converted into the renowned queen of Egypt : for " a quihhle is to him (Shakspeare) the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it!" Shakspeare lost the world ! He won it in an age of intellectual giants — the Anakims of mind were... | |
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