 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace. Which shallow-laughing hearers give to fools: A jest's prosperity lies in...tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, Deaf'd with the clamour of their own dear* groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then. And I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spiri; Whose influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools: A jest's...hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silier-white, And cuckoo-buds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...jest, with a sad brow, will do with a fellow that never had the acho in his shoulders. H. IV. FT. nv 1. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. LL v. 2. I will bite thee by the ear for that jest. RJ ii. 4. That very oft, When I am dull with care... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt - 1852 - 566 pages
...way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that k>ose grace, Which shallow-laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in...tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, I)eaf'd with the clamour of their own dear* groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then. And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 512 pages
...spirit. Whose influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : Л jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears...tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, DeaPd with the clamours of their own dear* groan«, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then. And... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pages
...in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable." This stubbornness is unfortunate, since "A jest's prosperity lies In the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it." And the reason some people are no friends to wit, is, because they are not witty : like " that blind... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 928 pages
...agony. Rot, Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace, up thy spirits ; look cheerfully upon me. Here, love...[Sets the dish on a table. I am sure, sweet Kate, thi clamours of their own dire groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue them, And I will have you,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools. A jest's...tongue Of him that makes it. Then, if sickly ears, Deafed with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And I... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...accusation of communicational narcissism on the part of Berowne and his complacently self-directed wit: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (5. 2. 853-5) Rosaline's stand on behalf of the hetero-communicational goals of discourse is a common... | |
 | David Richman - Comic, The - 1990 - 212 pages
...emotional state to be moved and delighted. He has Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost admonish Berowne: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (5.2.849-51) In The Comedy of Errors, Antipholus of Syracuse rebukes both Dromios for jesting when... | |
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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... 
