 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pages
...tedious ; his set speeches are commonly cold and weak ; a quibble has a malignant power over his mind, it is " the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation." Some of Johnson's censures are just, but it is evident that... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 pages
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistable. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition,...amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspence, — let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disposition, 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,... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pages
...sure to engulf him in the mire. .... Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisitions .... let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished " (p. xli). And, to pass over the coarse jests and contemptible quibbles, what shall we say to a conceit... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1893 - 160 pages
...tedious ; his set speeches are commonly cold and weak ; a quibble has a malignant power over his mind, it is " the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation ". Some of Johnson's censures are just, but it is evident that... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 pages
...mind, and its fascinations are irresistible. Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disposition, 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 384 pages
...ingulf 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...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, ts or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...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,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalt10 ing affection, whether he be amusing attention with incidents...golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and 15 barren as it is, gave him such delight... | |
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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... 
