...(like the former) was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shakespeare with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." 72 « Fuller's Worthies, tbl. p. 126, A a a. The following specimens of our poet's wit are poor enough....

...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...the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shalt thon, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more cordial laugh,...

...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.' Beaumont is more rapturous a describer, as becomes one who had personally assisted at the intellectual...

...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." Such is Thomas Fuller's wellknown description of the convivial intercourse of Shakspere and Jonson,...

...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances ; Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." With what delight would after generations have hung over any well-authenticated instances of these...

...Peter Cunningham. in learning, solid but slow in his performances ; Shakspere, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." Few would imagine that a passage such as this should have been produced to prove that there was a quarrel...

...higher in learning : solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English 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...

...higher in learning : solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English 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...

...higher up in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shake-spear, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." At the end of the sixteenth century Shakespeare was on the flood-tide of a prosperous life ; at the...

...higher in learning — solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, like an English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." A curious corroboration of Jonson's precision of character and egoistical minuteness of method and...