 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, Which his fair tongue,...  Garrick and His Circle - Page 362by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - 417 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 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, * 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... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 pages
...! how he will spend his wit ! How he will triumph, leap and laugh at it ! 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...young judge ! Merchant of Venice, Act Iv. Sc, I. SHAKBSPRARB. • The rivet TttuKi. DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. Love's Later Lett, Ad Ii. Sc. |. SHAKESPEARE. As merry as the day is long. Much Ado about Nothing.... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - 1925 - 748 pages
...publican, who not only wrote the words and tunes of songs, but sang them also, and sang them well. 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... | |
 | Ray Stannard Baker - 1927 - 404 pages
...college annual, Olla Podrida, which expressed real student opinion, wrote of him: Prof. W— i— n. "A merrier man Within the limit of becoming mirth I never spent an hour's talk withal." III. POLITICAL INTERESTS These college activities, however, made up only a part of the man's extraordinary... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pages
...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 catch The other turns to a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...time Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Wiih in His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...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 catch The other turns to a... | |
 | Greg Harkin - 2001 - 340 pages
...lines in question come from Rosaline's speech at the beginning of act 2 of Love's Labour's Lost: "but a merrier man, / Within the limit of becoming mirth, / I never spent an hour's talk withal."21 By the time of revised proof, Boswell had decided to include the rest of the speech, which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...these students at that time Was there with him: if I have heard a truth, Berowne they call him; but am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!' 0 my Antonio, I do know of th His eye begets occasion for his wit; For everv object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a... | |
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