 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...these students at that time Was there with him. If I have heard a truth, BinSn they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 600 pages
...time Was there with him : As b I have heard a truth, , Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, V* Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent...Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and volublo is his... | |
 | Austin Brereton - Adelphi (London, England) - 1907 - 376 pages
...the property 'of my friend, Mr Langton, the following passage from his beloved Shakespeare : — ' A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1910 - 864 pages
...of these students at that time Was there with him,if I have heard a truth. Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1910 - 394 pages
...Lost : — " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withall, His eye begets occasion for his wit : For every object...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...rested. 3255 Jean Ingelow : Story of Doom. Bk. vii. Line 271 MIRTH— see Care, Character, Cheerfulness. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. 3256 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Aet ii. Sc 1 More merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1911 - 644 pages
...mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. St. Matthew, chap. xxviL v. 52, 53. 2 See ante, p. 236. His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object...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... | |
 | Ernst August Lüdemann - 1912 - 88 pages
...these students at that time Was there icith him, if I have heard a truth. Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracioua words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished; So... | |
 | William Henry Schofield - Chivalry - 1912 - 334 pages
...watch for her! To pray for her! Go to! Rosaline explains to the princess : Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming- mirth,...doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. Various critics have detected in Biron something of Shakespeare himself. However that may be, we are... | |
 | 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
...us as much with the loss of a rabbit as with the finding of a continent. Like Biron in conversation, His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object...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... | |
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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... 
