| William Shakespeare - 1920 - 172 Seiten
...more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. 10 Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more. Ami. My voice is ragged : I know I cannot please you. Jaq. I do not desire you... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 Seiten
...breeds fleas as fast as a loach" breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As you Like it, Jaques says that he " can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs " out of a song." — And in Troilus and Cressida,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 Seiten
...fortunes. He is the prince of philosophical idlers; his only passion is thought; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection....-melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ; M the motley fool, " who morals on the time," is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest.... | |
| James Kirke Paulding - 1817 - 270 Seiten
...contrary, without effort — you never hear the flapping of the eagle's wings. , • You, who I know can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs," have often been galled to see such fulsome praises lavished on poems without a single ray of genius,... | |
| 1818 - 784 Seiten
...fortunes. He is the prince of philosophical idlers ; his only passion is thought; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection....is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest. He resents Orlando's passion for Rosalind as some disparagement of his own passion for abstract truth... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 Seiten
...fortunes. He is the prince of philosophical idlers ; his only passion is thought ; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection....is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest. He resenls Orlando's passion for Rosalind as some disparagement of his own passion for abstract truth... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 Seiten
...idlers ; his only passion is thought ; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food Tor reflection. He can " suck melancholy out of a song,...is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest. He resents Orlando's passion for Rosalind as some disparagement of his own passion for abstract truth... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 Seiten
...breeds fleas as fast as a loach" breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As you Like it, Jaques says that he "can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs "out of a song." — And in Troilus and Cressida,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 Seiten
...breeds fleas as fast as a loach " breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As You Like It, Jaques says that he " can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs " out of a song."—And in Troilus and Cressida, where... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 Seiten
...more. Ami. It will make yon melancholy, monsieur Jaques. Jffq. I thank it. More, I pr'ythee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs : ЛТоге, I pr'ythee, more. Ami. My voice is ragged J; I know, I cannot please you. Jaq. I do not... | |
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