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" Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his wit is not... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 187
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety; by an unfailing power of exciting e hath been lunatic ; And, when he says he is — ,b say, that " The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with...
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The complete works of Shakspere, with a memoir, and essay, by ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1870 - 740 pages
...despises him. by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter; which is the more freely indulged, as his...scapes and sallies of levity, which make sport, but r..ic no envy. It must bo observed, that he is stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes; so that...
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Quite a Gentleman

Quite - Young men - 1878 - 90 pages
...vices, attributes his popularity to his "perpetual gaiety" and to his never-failing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy scopes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy.—But perpetual gaiety is the most...
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Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 222 pages
...despises him by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gayety — by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. V The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with...
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Works: With Glossarial Notes and a Sketch of His Life, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 496 pages
...despises him, bv the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety ; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with...
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History of King Henry the Fourth, Part 2

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 228 pages
...despises him by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gayety — by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with...
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Shakespeare's Works, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1884 - 440 pages
...despises him by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gayety — by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with...
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The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the ..., Volume 1

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 472 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...wit is not of the splendid or ambitious kind, but consiste in easy scapes and sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise no envy." Schlegel says:...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With Historical and ..., Volume 13

William Shakespeare - English drama - 1887 - 436 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, oy an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise no envy." — JOHNSON. King Henry the Fifth, which, as promised in the epilogue to the second part of Henry IV.,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 13

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 438 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise no envy." — JOHNSON. King Henry the Fifth, which, as promised in the epilogue to the second part of Henry IV.,...
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