 | William Shakespeare - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) - 1886 - 148 pages
...pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish, confounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. (All laugh.) Yet it was always a trick of our nation if they have a good thing to make it too common... | |
 | Henry Halford Vaughan - English drama - 1886 - 670 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...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. ' The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man.'] The junction of ' compounded ' with ' foolish '... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 216 pages
...take a pride to gird3 at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent...men. I do here walk before thee like a sow that hath overwhelm'd all her litter but one. If the Prince put thee into my service for any other reason than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 236 pages
...sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man. is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent,...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. Act 1, Sc. 2,1.5. CHIEF-JUSTICE. Every part about you blasted with antiquity. FALSTAFF. Act 1, Sc.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...says that merry knight, "take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent anything kF CHEERFULNESS.* " Be calm, my Dollios, and serene, However fortune change the scen« ; In thy most dejected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - 210 pages
..." take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolishcompounded clay,. man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent,...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." Here it is plain that he is himself proud of the pride that others take in girding at him ; he enjoys... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - 216 pages
..." take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolishcompounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent,...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." Here it is plain that he is himself proud of the pride that others take in girding at him ; he enjoys... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English drama - 1895 - 566 pages
..." take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolishcompounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent,...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." Here it is plain that he is himself proud of the pride »that others take in girding ;it him; he "enjoys... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 508 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...'myself, but the 'cause that wit is in 'other men. Boy, I do here walk before ' thee, like a sow that hath overwhelmed all her litter but 'one. If the... | |
 | A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 pages
...says that merry knight, " take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented...myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."/— C. No. 57.] SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1711. Quern praestare potest mulier galeata pudorem, Quae fugit a seiu... | |
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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... 
