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 that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth.... The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Seite 2871765Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 Seiten
...unfinished. 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, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth.... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 Seiten
...unfinished ! 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 that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 Seiten
...De Arte Poeticd, 182-188. + Introduction to the Literature of Europe, III. 577. his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 544 Seiten
...quibble is to Shakspeare the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop s, CELIA drest like a Shepherdess, and TOUCHSTONE. Ros. O Jupiter! such delight that he was content to purchase it at the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth ;"... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 562 Seiten
...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 that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth."... | |
 | George Wilkes - 1882 - 512 Seiten
...barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." To these remarks I will only add that, to me, Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 Seiten
...unfinished. A quibble is the gnlHrn appla Inr which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop ! a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing: for there is no such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety,. and truth.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 Seiten
...barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. Works, v. n8. YET it must be at last confessed that, as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 Seiten
...unfinished. 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, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth.... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 Seiten
...unfinished. 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, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth.... | |
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