My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, 90 And tediousness the limbs and outward... Shakespeare's Hamlet, herausg. von K. Elze - Seite 31von William Shakespeare - 1857 - 272 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 Seiten
...feast together. Most welcome home ! [Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius. Po. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate » What majesty...soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward florishei), — I will be brief. Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness,... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 418 Seiten
...readings which the editors of the folio had other reasons for knowing to be genuine. II. 2. POLONIUS. My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste day, night, and time. This is an admirable ridicule of the tedious exordiums which we sometimes find... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 Seiten
...standard on his ramparts play." 55 1779.] CHAPTER XXI. Operations against the Indians. - Since brevity ia the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief." THE period had now arrived to chastise the Indians for the fiendish outrages they had committed. General... | |
 | 1867 - 1464 Seiten
...good, And shape to win grace though he had no wit. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 2, Scene 1. Folonious. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call it; for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go. Queen.... | |
 | 1867 - 504 Seiten
...no wit. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 2, Scene 1. Polonioua. Mv liege, and madam, to expostulate >Vhat majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night...time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediouaness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call it;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 Seiten
...feast together : Most welcome home ! [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate* What majesty...time, Were nothing but to waste, night, day, and time. * My liege, and madam, to expostulate — ] To expostulate, for lo enquire or discuss. WARBCRTON makes... | |
 | 1847 - 526 Seiten
...tedious As a tir'd horse, a railing wife ; Worse than a smoky chimney. SHAKSPEARE. 13 8. Since brevity 's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes— I will be brief. SHAKSPEARE. 4. A flourish ! trumpets ! — strike alarums— drums ! Let not the heavens hear these... | |
 | 1847 - 540 Seiten
...As a tir'd horse, a railing wife ; Worse than a smoky chimney. • SHAKSPEARE. 8. Since brevity 'a the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes— I will be brief. SHAKSPEARE. 4. A flourish ! trumpets ! — strike alarums— drums 1 Let not the heavens hear these... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848
...This business is well ended. [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIOS. My liege, and madam, to expostulate s What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day,...time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore,—since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,—... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 156 Seiten
...the doctor too. Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. By and by is easily said.... | |
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