 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 348 pages
...fleas as fast as a loach" breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As you Like it, Jaques says that he " can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs " out of a song." — And in Troilus and Cressida,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 344 pages
...breeds fiees like a loach.] The loach is a very small fish, In As you Like it, Jaques says that he " can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs " out of a song."—And in Troilas and Cressida, where... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...fleas as fast as a loach" breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As you Like it, Jaques says that he " can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs " out of a song." — And in Troilus and Cressida,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 702 pages
...his request of singing again, that it would make him melancholy. " I thank it. More, I pr'ythee more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs : More, I pr'ythee, more f ;" and we can well conceive with what exquisite pleasure he listened to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...only passion is thought; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection. He can " suck -melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ; M the motley fool, " who morals on the time," is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest.... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - Southern States - 1817 - 270 pages
...contrary, without effort — you never hear the flapping of the eagle's wings. , • You, who I know can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs," have often been galled to see such fulsome praises lavished on poems without a single ray of genius,... | |
 | English poetry - 1818 - 784 pages
...only passion is thought; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection. He can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;'' the motley fool, " who morals on the time/' is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...only passion is thought ; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection. He can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" the motley fool, "who morals on the time," is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest. He... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Drama - 1818 - 552 pages
...only passion is thought; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection. He can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" the motley fool, "who morals on the time," is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest. He... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...breeds fleas as fast as a loach" breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As you Like it, Jaques says that he "can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs "out of a song." — And in Troilus and Cressida,... | |
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I do not desire you to please me ; I do desire you to sing. Come, more ; another stanzo : call you 'em stanzos ? Ami. 
