 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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 ravish'dj So sweet and voluble is his discourse. VIRTUE GIVEN to be EXERTED. (SHAKESPEARE.} HEAV'N... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 460 pages
...The other turns to a mirth-moving jest j 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. Prin. God bless my ladies! are they all in love;... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...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." We were all in fine spirits ; and I whispered... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...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." We were all in fine spirits; and I whispered to... | |
 | James Mason - 1809 - 566 pages
...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. Prin. God bless my ladies! are they all in love?"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...The other tuvns 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. ^ Prin. God bless my ladies ! are they all in love;.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit t 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. _ Prin. God bless my ladies ! are they all in lo«... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1814 - 752 pages
...o'.her turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair pen — (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 discource, That hear him reason in Divinity, And, all-admiring,... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - English literature - 1815 - 362 pages
...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 ravish'd, So sweet and voluble is his discourse. Independent of his numerous scenic labours, Mr. G.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Deliven in such apt and gracunn words, That aged ears play truant at his tales. And younger hearings are quite raruhed; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. A Comical Description of Cupid or Lore. too BOOK III.... | |
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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 tongue... 
