 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pàgines
...passage by Andrew Fuller, writing in 1662.: "Many were the wit combats between him and Ben Jonson, Which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pàgines
...itself was all the art which was used upon him. Many were the wit combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson. Which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakenpeare,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pàgines
...itself was all the art which was used upon him. Many were the wit combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson. Which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Jouson, like the former, was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakenpeare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pàgines
...of the " wit-combats " at the jovial meetings there, and says of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson :— " onour let Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare,... | |
 | Robert E. Hunter - 1864 - 296 pàgines
...the succeeding generation : — " Many were the wit combats between him (Shakespeare) and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shakespeare,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pàgines
...while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy I—Many were the "wit-combats," (to dally awhile with the...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pàgines
...such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar while the walls of the old Grey Friars reechoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy!...awhile with the words of old Fuller), between him and 0. V. Le G , " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man of war : Master... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pàgines
...Friars re-echoed to the1 'accents ; of the inspired charity-boy ! — Many were the " wife-combats " (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller), between him and CV Le G , "which two I behold Mke a Spanish 'great galleon, and nn English man of war: Master Coleridge, like1 the formed, was built... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pàgines
...THE DRAMATISTS OP SHAKSPERE'S SECOND PERIOD. " MANY were the wit-combats betwixt him and BEN JONSON ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English manof-war : Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pàgines
...such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy...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... | |
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CVL, 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. 
