 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...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.)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspeare, what luminous vapors 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... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1861 - 394 pages
...them to be in real wit and humor. 'A quibble is to Shakspeare,' says Johnson, ( what luminous vapors 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.' What is thus absurdly applied... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Canterbury (N.Z.) - 1865 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspeare, what luminous vapors 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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - Botanists - 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... | |
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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. 
