| Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. It may be observed that he is stained... | |
| Peggy O'Brien - Drama - 2006 - 244 pages
...Falstaff is a character loaded with faults, and with those faults which naturally produce contempt. ... It must be observed, that he is stained with no enormous...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with... | |
| John Dover Wilson - 1961 - 162 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. It must be observed that he is stained... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 pages
...by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetaal gaiety; by an unfailing power of exciting langhter, which is the more freely indulged, as his wit is not of the splendid or ambitious kind, but cousists in easy scapes and sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise no envy. It must be observed,... | |
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