 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830
...worthiness. Ros. Another of 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, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831
...man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (Conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1918
...hearts of men. It might truly have been said of him in Shakespeare's phrase : " His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth loving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1962 - 213 pages
...limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk witha1. His eye begets occasion for his wit, 70 For every object that the one doth catch. The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue— conceit's expositorDelivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 204 pages
...him exhibits his capacity for a kind of auto-conception involving the eye, wit, and language: Berowne they call him; but a merrier man Within the limit of becoming mirth I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit, For every object that the one doth... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 356 pages
...witness Bartholomew Fair. In Love's Lahour's Lost Rosaline says of Berowne that His eye begets occasion for his wit, For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-loving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 349 pages
...speech (and Berowne's in particular) as a resplendent 'key of conceptions': Ros. His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words. (2. 1. 69ff.)... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - 1990 - 234 pages
...most lavishly achieved of Shakespeare's witty fellows. Rosaline says of him, "His eye begets occasion for his wit, / For every object that the one doth catch / The other turns to a mirthmoving jest" (2.1.69-71). And no more need be said here about his identification as a poet. Benedick in Much... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1263 pages
...man, Wiih in the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion 3 jest, Which his fair tongue — conceit's expositor — Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 228 pages
...sick before their marriage. Of all the lords, Berowne is the most brilliant word-spinner: Berowne, they call him - but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit, For every object that the one doth... | |
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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 : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest... 
