 | Languages, Modern - 1865
...of the „cutted comma," the adjective „filthy" is not separated by a comma from the noun .gain." A Jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : xnirot ifycay' öf(ä rfts itSv UeyövTcai' Svräfieaii rovi äxovorrae 10 nielarov Kvfiovs' tot... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847
...in the throat of death ? It cannot be ; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. worse than none : better have none Than plural faith,...by one. Thou counterfeit to thy true friend ! Pro. Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans. Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And... | |
 | David Richman - Drama - 1990 - 197 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... | |
 | Valeria Finucci - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 329 pages
...of laughing was the proprium of Man as animal rationale. — Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiosis , 59 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. — Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, V, 2 MY ARGUMENT IN the preceding two chapters has been that... | |
 | Carl Dale Hill - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 244 pages
...to substantiate his claim that the success of the Witzarheit can onlv be judged by a third person. 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it' ( 144). The inherent intersubjectivity of the joke becomes essential in the process ofEvleiebterung.... | |
 | Julian Markels - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 164 pages
...heaven and earth, Horatio" or Edgar's "Ripeness is all," and sometimes portentous utterances like these: 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. 871-73) The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1263 pages
...soul in agony. ROSALINE. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot ofthat ᅑSR 'EW C (u r 1c ab hXE ,! U-F Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Simon Dunmore - Performing Arts - 1997 - 120 pages
...task shall be With all the fierce endeavour of your wit To enforce the pained impotent to smile. is A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears...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, 20 And... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 248 pages
...over; for a twelvemonth he must visit 'the speechless sick' and make them smile. Rosaline's homily, 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it' (859-61) is not only good moral sense but a sound articulation of the importance of plain talk in Shakespeare... | |
 | Michael J. Collins - Drama - 1997 - 249 pages
...self-aggrandizement, but to cheer up others. Rosaline hopes that Berowne will come to discover for himself that "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.861-63). She calls his jests "idle scorns" and twice refers to his "gibing spirit" as a "fault,"... | |
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