 | Henry Fielding - 2003 - 824 pages
...is nothing truer than Shakespear 's Observation in his Love 's Labours lost, Л Jest 's Prosperity lies in the Ear Of him that hears it, never in the Tongue Of him that makes it.1 Thus we often hear one Gentleman expressing himself with a most exquisitely good, most inimitably... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2003 - 296 pages
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 | Robin Williams - 2003 - 96 pages
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 | Sigmund Freud - 2003 - 276 pages
...may make the aim of arousing pleasure unattainable. As Shakespeare reminds us: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Ofhim that makes it ... (Love's Labours Lost, V.ii. 869-71) Someone under the sway of a mood linked... | |
 | Emma Smith - 2003 - 320 pages
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 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2004 - 310 pages
...that an audience's listening necessatily complements the actors oral art, that A jest's prospetity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it ... In the Phaedrus, Plato also makes Socrates say 'anyone who leaves behind him a wtirten manual,... | |
 | Steven Price - 2005 - 371 pages
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 | Robert Maslen - 2005 - 284 pages
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 | Syd Pritchard - 2005 - 149 pages
...the limbs and outward jlourishes, Be brief. [Hamlet II ii 90] Know your listeners A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. [Love's Labour's Lost V ii 869] Speak with authority When he speaks the air, a chartered libertine,... | |
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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... 
