 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...him : if I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming am no thing to thank God on, I would thou shonld'stknow...an honest mail's wife : and, setting thy knighthood trnaut at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 482 pages
...Langton, the following passage from his beloved Shakspeare : " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye...Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged years play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...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...Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged years play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 596 pages
...•* • * * * "A merrier man, ',/ • . ,j. л.| .-',: ., // • . Within the limit oí becoming, mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye...his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch/' ~ .1 1 : .• -14/. *i¡.ij The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...talk withal : аи eye begets occasion for hi» wit ; •Jr every object that the one doth catch, "e other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Clivers in such apt and gracious words, Joat aged ears pl,iy truant at his tales, JM younger hearings... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1918 - 892 pages
...an empire over the hearts of men. It 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
...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...hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse. (2.1.66-76) Even Holofernes can revel in the procreative power of his wit: This is a... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - 1971 - 782 pages
...113, 8. he had the dialect and different skill — ing all passions in his craft of will, Compl. 126. his eye begets occasion for his wit; for every object that the one doth c. the other turns to a mirthmoving jest, LLL II, 70. my fear hath — ed your fondness. All's I, 3,... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 pages
...comedy from festivity ; witness 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... | |
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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... 
