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" I might say, element ; but the word is over-worn. [Exit, Via. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well, craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; • And, like the... "
The Works: Of Shakespear. In which the Beauties Observed by Pope, Warburton ... - Page 116
by William Shakespeare - 1771
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The works of William Shakspere; from the text of the editions by C. Knight ...

William Shakespeare - 1859 - 1142 pages
..."• вой obferrr »heir mood on whom he jests. /.in— vijmimi, dwell*. The quality of persons, — How now, mad spirit? \Vhat night-rule a now about this haun согпез before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art : For folly,...
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The plays (poems) of Shakespeare, ed. by H. Staunton ..., Part 169, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1859 - 790 pages
...that well craves a kind of wit ; He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; And, like the haggard, check at every feather That conies before his eye. This is a practice, As full of labour as a wise man's art : For folly, that...
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The Last of the Old Squires: A Sketch

John Wood Warter - Gentry - 1861 - 250 pages
...Term) with his, " This Fellow's wife enough to play the Fool ; And, to do that well, craves a Kind of Wit, He muft obferve their Mood on whom he jefts, The Quality of Perfons, and the Time ; And, like the Haggard, check at every Feather That comes before his Eye. This...
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The last of the old squires; a sketch by Cedric Oldacre. [By] J.W. Warter

John Wood Warter - 1861 - 250 pages
...Term) with his, " This Fellow's wife enough to play the Fool ; And, to do that well, craves a Kind of Wit, He muft obferve their Mood on whom he jefts, The Quality of Perfons, and the Time ; And, like the Haggard, check at every Feather That comes before his Eye. This...
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Mittheilungen über Zwecke, Leiden und Freuden der Aerzte

Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx - 1867 - 650 pages
...it well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons , and the time. And like the haggard, check at every...comes before his eye. This is a practice, As full of labonr as a wise-mans art. I. Samuel. Cap. 25. V. 25. kannt sey, benahm er sich , wie wenn er nicht...
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The loyalist's daughter, by a royalist, Volume 3; Volume 306

Loyalist - 1867 - 310 pages
...that well, cr-ives a kind of wit : He must ohserve their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons and the time ; And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is practice." Hhakeipeart. AFTER their morning's devotions, in which, no doubt, with the daily sacrifice,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1100 pages
...wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, 70 Л:,'.!, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This ¡sa practice As full of labour as a wise man's art : 1 ur folly that he \vi>c!y shows is fit; But...
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The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained, and Illustrated

James Edmund Harting (naturaliste).) - Birds in literature - 1871 - 364 pages
...that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye." To " check " is a term used in falconry, signifying to " fly at," although it sometimes meant to "...
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The Works of Shakespeare: Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of ...

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 996 pages
...that well, craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time; And, like the haggard,' check at every feather That comes before his eye. Tliis is a practice AH full of labour as a wise man's art: For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit;...
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Shakespeare Select Plays: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 290 pages
...Twelfth Night, ii. 5. 124: 'with what wing the staniel checks at it,' and '". i. 71, of the same play : 'And like the haggard check at every feather That comes before his eye.' The use of the word is not quite the same here, because the voyage was Hamlet's ' proper game,' which...
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