 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 548 pages
...fear some outrage, and I '11 follow her. [Exit. LEW. There 's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste1, That it yields nought but shame... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...too accurately express my own occasional feelings — "There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." LA You are determined, then, to return bitter for my sweet, and dark for my light, and... | |
 | Sarah R. Whitehead - 1852 - 322 pages
...her, and yet she dared not utter them. CHAPTER XII. There 's nothing in the world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. SHAKBPEAKE. THE winter passed away — Arden House stood empty and desolate — that Arden... | |
 | J. L. Styan - 1967 - 260 pages
...Prince Arthur and the grief of his mother Constance, There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. (m, iv, 107-9) unite mood and sentiment in the drama of the scene. The idiom of such speech,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...Shaw on MORALITY; Beecham on Music; Barrie, Wilson on The SCOTS; Muggeridge on SEX; Shaw on VICE Ennui Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Lewis, Kingjohn William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet She, while her... | |
 | Susan Howe - 1993 - 212 pages
...been published in magazines. The title could also be a reference to lines in Shakespeare's King John: "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." Coincidentally or uncannily, Twice-told Tales was published in 1837, exactly two hundred... | |
 | Daniel Chapelle - 1993 - 268 pages
...all-too-familiar anecdotes. In the words of Shakespeare: "There's nothing in this world can make me joy. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man" (King John 3.4.107-9). Freud emphasizes this sense of timelessness: "Unconscious mental... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...statesman. Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" (On Tranquilily of Mind), set. 2, subset. 1 5. 9 e Letters of the farl of Chesterfield to His drowsy man. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1 564-1 61 6), English dramatist, poel. Louis the Dauphin, in Kinglohn,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...fear some outrage, and I'll follow her. [Exit. LOUIS. There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And biner shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields naught but shame and... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 218 pages
...pronouncement on life as redundant imitation is spoken by Lewis ("a beardless boy, a cocker'd silken wanton"): "Life is as tedious as a twicetold tale / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man" (Kiag John, Act 3, scene 4. lines 108-9).' I n his 1851 preface to Twiie-Told Talrs (1837),... | |
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There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness. 
