 | Robert Burton - 1824 - 378 pages
...they are dry, barren, straminious, dull, and heavy ; and, indeed, " The influence Of a gibing spirit is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing...hears it ; never in the tongue Of him that makes it." Leo the Tenth was a character of this unami* " There cannot," says Lord Shaftesbury, in his essay on... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 352 pages
...in the throat of death ? It cannot be ; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lias in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Kin. Why.that'sthewaytochokeagibingspirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace, Which...fools: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that Dears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, DeaPd with the clamours... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...SHAKSPEARE.—"Love's Labour's Lost." malice which such " idle scorns" are likely to produce, seeing that— " A jest's prosperity lies in the ear : Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it." Byron was doomed to endure a strange destiny. He appeared as the great luminary of our literary hemisphere,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...touch her whoever dare ; I'll bring mine action on' the proudest he That stops my way in Padua. WIT. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. So, get you hence in peace ; and tell the Dauphin, His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...death? t cannot be; it is impossible: Mirthcaunotmoveasoulin agony. Ros. Why, that'sthe way to chokea gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose...laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies i'.i the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...agony. Ros. Why, that'sthewaytochokcagibing spirit, fVhosc influence is begot of that loose grace, Vhich , Ofhim thathears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, )eaf d with the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, W hose influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow...hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (a) See ante, p. 28. (6) Rawley. and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...may say, with the Poet, * Lives of the i'oets, vol. 4, Altenside. 174 Why. that's fhe way to choak a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that...grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools: A jrst's |)rnK|ierity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be ; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Bo*. k. [books. Jfes*. I see, lady, the gentleman is not in yonr /.'-.•'. No : an be were, I would b (hallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it,... | |
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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue Of him that makes it... 
