 | John Morison Duncan - History - 1823 - 760 pages
...classic and forcible. Of him it may with truth be said, he communicates his sentiments " ^—— 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." E4 The editor of the New York Daily Advertiser,—... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 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. Prin. God bless my ladies ! are they all in love;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 pages
...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 arc quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse." We were all in fine spirits ; and I whispered... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 402 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." * In the coincidence of sparkling wit, and indulgence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 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 - 1824 - 518 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. Prin. God bless my ladies ! are they all in lore... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 352 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... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 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." * In the coincidence of sparkling wit, and indulgence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which bis 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. Prm. God bless my ladie.i ! are they all in love... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 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. Prin. God bless my ladies ! are they all in love... | |
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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... 
