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. The "impersonality" of Shakespeare - Page 14by Edward George Harman - 1925 - 330 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1827 - 844 pages
...worthiness. Rot. Another of these students at that t홫» Was there with him : if I have heard a truth our brave father breath'd his latest gasp, Tidings,...could run, Were Drought me of your loss, and his depar oceasion tor his wit : For every object that the one doth catch, The other turna to a mirth-moving... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues. A MERRY MAN. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For eyery object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest: Which his fair tongue... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...is now the property of my friend Mr. Langton, the following passage from his beloved Shakspeare : " ^ Ms wit ; For «very object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest i Which... | |
| 1829 - 526 pages
...that the following beautiful lines must be utterly and for ever, inapplicable to the Christian ? — " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit — Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, Th 1 1 ].... | |
| Julius Michael Millingen - 1831 - 366 pages
...seem as if prophetically written for him : " Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limits of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal....occasion for his wit ; For every object, that the one does catch. The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...worthiness. Ros. Another of these students at that tiro* Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, beget« occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch. The other turns to a mirth-moving... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pages
...friend Mr. Langton, the following passage from his beloved " ---- A merrier man, .j; [;M ;•// _• Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent...hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit ; -• ' jjjjof* For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...Know you the man ?| ither of these students at that time Was there with him : if 1 have heard a truih, Biron they call him : but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, 1 1 never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye bepets occasion for bis wit ; For every object that... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 pages
...JACK ALL. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, 1 never spent an hour's talk withall. His eye begets occasion for his wit. For every object...doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. выл, IN our time we have seen nothing like JOHN REEVE ; nor do wë'think from reading, or according... | |
| A. Walton - 1834 - 158 pages
...— he was the counterpart of that character Shakespeare has so divinely sketched, when he says — " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit j For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth moving jest, Which his fair... | |
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