...of odd quirks and remnants of wit;" and I feel sure that those who remember Johnson's remark, " that a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it," will admit that I have some grounds for my belief. Besides, have we not Aubrey's report of his " very...

...turn aside from his career ; a quibble, poor and barren as it is, gives him such delight that he is content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth." In this Shakspearian spirit our lawyers have acted. They have pursued their quibbles with the ardor...

...apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, s, and TOUCHSTONE. Ros. O Jupiter! how weary 13 are my spirits ! Touch. 1 care not at the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth ;" and, lastly, the meteor, the bird of game, and...

...even if she did, the worst that can be urged is that a pun was to Shakespeare, in Dr Johnson's words, the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. It is one of his idiosyncrasies and we must put up with it. Has he not himself taught us that a friend...

...dead puns that occur to me, from Shakespeare. Johnson asserts that a quibble was to Shakespeare he fatal Cleopatra for which he lost .the world, and was content to lose it. This, like the generality of Johnsoniana, has considerable truth, with a vast deal of mere burly assertion...

...incorrect as it is highly coloured and eulogistic. It was said of Thomas Fuller, that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ; and we fear that, with equal propriety, it may be said of Lord Macaulay, that antithesis is the Cleopatra...

...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...by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth." l In this Shakespearean spirit our lawyers have acted. They have pursued quibbles with the ardor of...

...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...by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth." 1 In this Shakespearean spirit our lawyers have acted. They have pursued quibbles with the ardor of...

...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...quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he Jost the world. and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects...

...mere " quibble" which allured him from the " dignity and profundity of his disquisitions," nor the "Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it,' ' but it was the aroma which sprung from the blossoms of his genius and the flowers of his philanthropy....