 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." Johnson meant by quibble what we mean by word-play, and, allowing for metaphorical expression, we must... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...lead him out of his way, and sure to ingulf him in the mire. ... A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or...by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. gobble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the "a, and was content to lose it." 0 *-~... | |
 | 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or...he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...a quibble spring up before him and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or...for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.11 It will be thought strange that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1967 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished, A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. Preface to his edition of Shakespeare, 1765 But nowadays taste has changed and we have learned to accept... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible ... A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such...which he lost the world and was content to lose it. (Ibid., p. 68) Those words are an eloquent climax to a chorus of indictment that had been swelling... | |
 | Mihoko Suzuki - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. ... A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. — Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare" Just as Euripides' story of faithful Helen's sojourn in... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 585
...quibble spring up before him and he leaves his work un-finished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or...he lost the world, and was content to lose it. ' It will be thought strange that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned his... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. [74] In this passage, frequently cited by Johnson's contemporaries, we see the firm decisiveness absent... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...Samuel Johnson, commented disapprovingly: A quibble is the golden apple for which he [Shakespeare] will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. (Vickers, v. 68) Today Shakespeare's quibbles, often cut in production, may seem trivial and tedious;... | |
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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 quibble •was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. 
