| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 596 pages
...for twelve months seek the weary beds of people sick." A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for Ms wit : For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his... | |
| William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 353 pages
...him, if I have heard a truth. 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, 70 For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair... | |
| Alexander Leggatt - 2005 - 296 pages
...'Love's Labour's Lost', p. 422. and praised him in particular for his ability so to charm his hearers 'That aged ears play truant at his tales, / And younger hearings are quite ravished' (ni 74-5). She now feels less enthusiastic about Berowne's mockery than before. But does she also feel... | |
| William Godwin - 2006 - 646 pages
...higher ranks of society, are enabled so to express themselves, That aged ears play truant at their tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is their discourse. On the contrary there is a ruggedness in his manner that jars upon the sense. It is... | |
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