 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...the property of my friend Mr. Laug« ton, the following passage I'rom his beloved Shuksptare ; • A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming Mirth,...never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occmion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pages
...those 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 I...hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his mirth : For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Miracles are ceas'd ; And therefore we must needs admit the means, How things are perfected. MIRTH. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. He makes a July's day short as December; . And, with his varying childness, cures inme Thoughts that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...these students at that time Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but eterp : IIU eye begets occasion for bin wit ; For every object that the one doth catch. The other turns to... | |
 | John Gamble - 1826 - 374 pages
...always provided the best cheer, while his wit and good humour would have given a relish to the worst. " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal." He was a great improver of his demesne, on which he expended several thousand pounds. The appearance... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 844 pages
...students at that t홫» Was there with him : if I have heard a truth Biron they- call him ; but is latest gasp, Tidings, as swiftly as the posts 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 - 1831 - 542 pages
...these students at that tiro* Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but beget« occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch. The other turns to a mirth-moving... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1839 - 524 pages
...agreeableness of the feast ; and if he could not do that, he should do nothing to mar it. In short, — " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal." His prejudices. — I consider the prejudices of Mr. Warde to have been not only of the most harmless nature,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...iv. 5. 148 I throw mine eyes to Heaven, Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with. 23 — i. 4. 149 A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk witbil : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other... | |
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Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. 
