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
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 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... | |
 | Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 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... | |
 | 1877 - 430 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.... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1967 - 308 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.... | |
 | Joseph Crosby - 1986 - 368 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 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. (Ibid., p. 68) Those words are an eloquent climax to a chorus... | |
 | Mihoko Suzuki - 1989 - 292 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. — Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare" Just as Euripides'... | |
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