 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...iv. 5. 148 I throw mine eyes to Heaven, Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with. 23 — i. 4. 149 A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk witbil : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...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 ; — So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Shakspeare has only shown the inexhaustible powers of... | |
 | William Joseph Walter - 1840 - 404 pages
...limit of becoming mirth, 1 never spent an hour's talk withal: H is 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 ears play truant... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...actor must have been as delightful in the parlour as on the stage. -" A merrier man, Within the limits 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... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1918 - 892 pages
...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 - 1969 - 284 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...mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue— conceit's expositorDelivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - 1990 - 256 pages
...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 Ado... | |
 | 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 For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue... | |
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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... 
