 | William Shakespeare - 1918 - 216 pages
...himself. His own fatness amuses him quite 1 v. 1. 74-76. as much as it can possibly amuse his friends : "I am not only witty in myself ; but the cause that...like a sow that hath- overwhelmed all her litter but one."1 He fully enjoys the ridiculous contrast between himself and his tiny page, and declares: "If... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - Dramatists, English - 1920 - 200 pages
...pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. What about this scene (Act IV., Scene 3), where, during the fight in Yorkshire, Falstaff meets Coleville?... | |
 | Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock - 1922 - 632 pages
...pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented...in myself but the cause that wit is in other men. Deprive Falstaff of the womb that was his undoing and half the fun of the world would be gone. "These... | |
 | Humanities - 1920 - 390 pages
...as he said himself: " The brain of this foolish compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter more than I invent or is invented...witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."1 Indeed there is much in common between the ages of Pericles and Elizabeth — and I would add... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1921 - 180 pages
...at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends 8 to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on...walk before thee like a sow that hath overwhelmed all 12 her litter but one. If the prince put thee into my service for any other reason than to set me off,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1921 - 176 pages
...at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends 8 to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on...walk before thee like a sow that hath overwhelmed all 12 her litter but one. If the prince put thee into my service for any other reason than to set me off,... | |
 | Max Eastman - Literary Criticism - 1921 - 282 pages
...him. "The brain of this foolish compounded clay, man," says Sir John, "is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." For the heroic measure of that boast, as well as for the degree of its poetic achievement, we must... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Bibliomania - 1923 - 208 pages
...makes Falstaff 8ay : " The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter more than I invent or is invented...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." — 2 Henry IV, Act I, Sc. 2. 93 found of living humourists. What are Kipps and Mr. Polly, and even... | |
 | Frank Harris - Dramatists, English - 1909 - 452 pages
...pride to gird at me ; the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not" able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men " Just as in the first act Shakespeare introducing Falstaff makes him talk poetically, so here there... | |
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Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other... 
