 Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue...  The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes - Seite 550von William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann - 1786Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 1100 Seiten
...men that sought him sweet as summer. Kinf Henry VI II., Act Iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse. love's Labor lj>it. Act H. Sc. I. SHAKESPEARE. Frank,... | |
 | 1870
...The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Twenty years ago Daniel Webster said that Dickens... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1918
...The other turns to a mirth loving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales. And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse." No record of Mr. Choate's professional career, however... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 204 Seiten
...The other turns to a mirth-moving jest Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse. (2.1.66-76) Even Holofernes can revel in the procreative... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 356 Seiten
...The other turns to a mirth-loving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. This speech, with its nice distinction between the... | |
 | Hans-Jürgen Weckermann - 1978 - 369 Seiten
...seine jeden Zuhörer fesselnde Beredsamkeit: ... his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. (LLL II. i. 72-76) Weitere Beispiele für einen Sprachgebrauch,... | |
 | Keir Elam, William Shakespeare - 1984 - 339 Seiten
...discursive charisma is particularly striking. Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse (2. 1. 72-6) It might be noted that the hyperbolic... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1263 Seiten
...other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue — conceit's expositor — Delivers in such the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were thi ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. PRINCESS. God bless my ladies! are they all in love,... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 228 Seiten
...The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished. So sweet and voluble is his discourse. (ni) Later Rosaline derides him for his attitude to... | |
 | Philip Sidney, R.W. Maslen - 2002 - 266 Seiten
...Rosaline's description of Biton in Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, II, i, 73-5, whose tongue utters 'such apt and gracious words / That aged ears play truant at his tales, / And younger hearings are quite ravished'. 17 forsooth] truly. 19 pretending no more, doth intend] claiming to be nothing more than... | |
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