 | Litchfield County (Conn.) - 1851 - 440 pages
...debater, he was always equal to the emergency of an occasion. He had a keen wit and overflowed with humor. "A merrier man Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal." He had moreover a kind heart, which displayed itself on all suitable occasions, and long will he be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life. TS IND. 2. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. LL ii. 1. And then the old cjuire hold their lips, and loffe ; And waxen in their mirth, and neeze,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 508 pages
...these students at Uiat 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 catch,... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - 1855 - 494 pages
...that for so many centuries had been the living bodies of the lately martyred trees ! CHAPTER XXVII. "A merrier man Within the limit of becoming mirth I never spent an hour's talk withal, Bo swoet and voluble la his dlaoourae." READER, will you be asked a question ? " Certainly." Do you... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 786 pages
...the sweet words in which Shakespeare has embalmed one of the characters in Love's Labor Lost : — " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eje begets occasion for his wit ; Foi every object that the one doth catch Tie other tarns to a mirth-moving... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 710 pages
...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 : 2 A peace. His eye begets occasion for his wit : For every object that the one doth catch, The other... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 616 pages
...these students at that time Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, Bir6n they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : VOL. II. II His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 832 pages
...these students at that time Was there with him : iff 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 eve begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turas to a mirth-moving... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 316 pages
...the property of my friend Mr. Langton, the following passage from his beloved Shakspeare : — • A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion lor his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which... | |
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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. 
