 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...  The Plays of William Shakspeare - Page 157by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 960 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Literature - 1915 - 460 pages
...as with the finding of a continent. Like Biron in conversation, His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other...ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. The display of such a wit as this is all... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - London (England) - 1916 - 428 pages
...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...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 - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Geology - 1917 - 238 pages
...limits 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...ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Yet, I would know it described only a phase... | |
 | Arthur Acheson, Edward Thurlow Leeds - Bird family - 1922 - 714 pages
...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...ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished So sweet and voluble is his discourse. In these lines in which Shakespeare describes... | |
 | Frank Harris - Dramatists, English - 1909 - 452 pages
...limits 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...ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Every touch of this self-painted portrait... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 pages
...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...ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. (II. >.) What better description could... | |
 | Georges Auguste Connes - 1927 - 294 pages
...limits of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for hia wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other...ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse." We have an idea from this that Shakespeare... | |
 | American essays - 1870 - 850 pages
...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...ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Twenty years ago Daniel Webster said that... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 206 pages
...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...ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse. (2.1.66-76) Even Holofernes can revel in... | |
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