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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... "
Much ado about nothing. The marchant of Venice. Love's labour lost. As you ... - Page 207
by William Shakespeare - 1747
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 15

1816 - 774 pages
...kingdom for a mirth, to (it, And keep the turn of tippling with a flare. Shak. HIP eye begets occalion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to am/'rrA-moving jeft. Shak. — Moft of the appearing mirth in the world is not miit'i but art ; the...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...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...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...Sittiad. Within the limit of becoming mirth, 1 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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...man, Within the limit of becoming Mirth, I 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 ; Which hii fair tongue (Conceit's expositor) Pelivers ip such apt and gracions words, That aged...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...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 gractous words, That aged...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 4

James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...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...
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The Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, Volume 1

1821 - 436 pages
...talents, and overflowing houses attend him on each night of his performance. " His eye begets occasion for his wit, For, every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; That aged years play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished." The press...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...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...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged...
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