 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 psl.
...SHAKSPEABE, with the English Man of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with ALL TIDES, and take advantage of ALL WINDS, by the quickness of his wit and invention!" FILLER. BRIEF MEMOIR Peerless Shakspeare brightly shone With a splendour not his own, While, with eloquence... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 350 psl.
...far higher in learning: solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with theEnglish man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's greater solidity. But let... | |
 | 1835 - 430 psl.
...built far higher in learning, solid, but alow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
 | 1835 - 432 psl.
...learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in hulk, hut lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack...and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of liis wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - 1835 - 524 psl.
...Sliaksptare, with an English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn wit/i all tides, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.1 Had these • Wit-combats,' between Shakspeare and Jonson, which Fuller notices, been chronicled... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 psl.
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shalt thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 psl.
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. VL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 psl.
...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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Mr. Leigh Hunt, after quoting this passage in the Indicator, adds, — " This is a happy simile, with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 psl.
...former, was built far higher in learning, solic bet slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like tie Utter, are Of these encounters of the keenest intellects not a vestige now remains. The memory ol Fuller, perhaps,... | |
 | Edward Smallwood - 1840 - 106 psl.
...on the side of Shakspeare ? Fuller, in his own expressive style, says, "Many were the wit combates between Shakspeare and Ben Jonson. I behold them like...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." The contest, indeed, between these master-dramatists must have been, in almost every respect, strikingly... | |
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I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could... 
