| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 páginas
...and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection,...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1967 - 308 páginas
...who despised puns, thought that a verbal quibble had 'some malignant power' over Shakespeare's mind : Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition,...whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchanting it in suspense, let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished,... | |
| Joseph Crosby - 1986 - 368 páginas
...Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions, whatever be the enlarging knowledge, or the exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention...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,... | |
| Philip Kuberski - 1994 - 232 páginas
...scientific clarity. Dr. Johnson was dismayed by Shakespeare's eagerness to play with words and make puns: "A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or step from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that... | |
| Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 páginas
...of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity...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... | |
| Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - 214 páginas
...and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection,...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... | |
| Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - 2001 - 222 páginas
...deflected by the 'irresistible' fascinations of the feminized quibble. For the heroic, manly playwright, 'a quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation'.3 In employing this terminology of swerve, fall, and decline,... | |
| Justus George Lawler - 2004 - 264 páginas
...provedly "true to life." Johnson wrote: "Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition . . . , let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. ... A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." embittered... | |
| Marjorie B. Garber - 2003 - 332 páginas
...out of his way. and sure to engulf him in the mire It has some malignant power over his mind, and tts fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlargtng knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention wtth incidents, or enchaining... | |
| Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - 2007 - 238 páginas
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible ... 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,... | |
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