The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. Yesterdays with Authors - Seite 249von James Thomas Fields - 1889 - 419 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST. Act ii. Sc. 1. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. Act v. Sc. 1. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Act... | |
| 1857 - 274 Seiten
...years by the dignified pleasantry of the present presiding officer? " A merrier man Within the limits of becoming mirth I never spent an hour's talk withal....object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth moving jest, So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Who has not been delightfully impressed... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 620 Seiten
...these students at that time Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object tbat the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue — conceit's... | |
| 1920 - 414 Seiten
...with the friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul." 1. Toastmaster, FE Clark, MD, '94"A merrier man, within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's tatk withal." 2. Welcome and Presentation of Loving Cup to JB Wheeler, MD, in commemoration of his... | |
| Robert Jones Burdette - 1922 - 520 Seiten
...his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks." — Much Ado About Nothing. "His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth loving jest." — Love's Labor Lost. After two pages of such flattering comment from Shakespeare,... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day. Henry VIII. Prologue. L. 31. 27 But @ / Lore's labour's Lost. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 66. 1 Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Love's Labour's Lost.... | |
| Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 170 Seiten
...properly, at the foot of Shakespeare's monument. Mr. BOSWELL. I shall place a wreath upon his grave; "a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal." Dr. JOHNSON. And I will go with you, and afterwards we will call upon his lady in the Adelphi. Enter... | |
| Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 170 Seiten
...properly, at the foot of Shakespeare's monument. Mr. BOSWELL. I shall place a wreath upon his grave; "<7 merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an how's talk -withal." Dr. JOHNSON. And I will go with you, and afterwards we will call upon his lady... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1924 - 336 Seiten
...latch them.' So the 'latch' or 'catch' of a window. For the expression in general cf. LLL 2. i. 69 'His eye begets occasion for his wit, / For every...doth catch / The other turns to a mirth-moving jest.' 7. HIS : viz. the eye's. QUICK OBJECTS. For 'objects' see 20. 6. They are 'quick' as passing rapidly... | |
| Henrietta Gerwig - 1925 - 748 Seiten
...publican, who not only wrote the words and tunes of songs, but sang them also, and sang them well. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent...catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which hi-j fuir tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears plïiy... | |
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