 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pagina’s
...actor must have been as delightful in the parlour as on the stage. -" A merrier man, Within the limits of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal....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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pagina’s
...must have been as delightful in the parlour as on the stage. •" A merrier man, Within the limits of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal....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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pagina’s
...these students at that time Was there with him : if I have heard 5 a truth, Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 360 pagina’s
...these students at that time Was there with him : As I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pagina’s
...students at that time Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, l lin il i they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...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... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1843 - 768 pagina’s
...belligerent parties ; song, jest, and repartee flowed alternately. Of him it might be truly said — " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest." During this temporary cessation of hostilities — which in social divisions as well as in its more... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pagina’s
...Shakspeare : " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. Hid eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object...fair tongue (Conceit's expositor) Delivers in such npt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pagina’s
...of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; I- or ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pagina’s
...Biron, " that merry mad-cap lord," is not overrated in Rosaline's admirable character of him — " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; — So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Shakspeare has only shown the inexhaustible powers of... | |
 | John Mills - 1845 - 276 pagina’s
...VOL. III. LONDON: TC NEWBY, MORTIMER STREET. THE OLD HALL; OB, OUR HEARTH AND HOMESTEAD. CHAPTEE I. " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-roving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words,... | |
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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... 
