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" A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it... "
Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream - Page 111
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare's times, texts, and stages

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...Rosaline rebukes him, that an audience's listening necessarily complements the actor's oral art, that A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it ... (v, ii, 85i-3) In the Phaedrus, Plato also makes Socrates say 'anyone who leaves behind him a written...
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Contributions to The Champion and Related Writings

Henry Fielding - Great Britain - 2003 - 824 pages
...that there is nothing truer than Shakespear 's Observation in his Love 's Labours lost, Л Jest 's Prosperity lies in the Ear Of him that hears it, never in the Tongue Of him that makes it.1 Thus we often hear one Gentleman expressing himself with a most exquisitely good, most inimitably...
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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

Sigmund Freud - Psychology - 2003 - 276 pages
...subjective determinants which may make the aim of arousing pleasure unattainable. As Shakespeare reminds us: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Ofhim that makes it ... (Love's Labours Lost, V.ii. 869-71) Someone under the sway of a mood linked...
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Shakespeare and Language

Catherine M. S. Alexander - Literary Collections - 2004 - 310 pages
...that an audience's listening necessatily complements the actors oral art, that A jest's prospetity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it ... In the Phaedrus, Plato also makes Socrates say 'anyone who leaves behind him a wtirten manual,...
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Shakespeare's Comedy of Love

Alexander Leggatt - Drama - 2005 - 296 pages
...difficult case. Her instruction to Berowne to 'jest a twelvemonth in an hospital' (v. ii. 859) is intended to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot...hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (v. 11.846-51) As with love poetry, the problem is to communicate - in this case, to give delight -...
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Love's Labor's Lost

William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Drama - 2011 - 353 pages
...the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible. Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. 930 ROSALINE Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 935 Of him that makes it. Then if sickly ears, Deafed with the clamors of their own dear groans, Will...
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Shakespeare: The Golfer's Companion

Syd Pritchard - Golf - 2005 - 149 pages
...wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward jlourishes, Be brief. [Hamlet II ii 90] Know your listeners A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. [Love's Labour's Lost V ii 869] Speak with authority When he speaks the air, a chartered libertine,...
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Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture

Marc Galanter - Law - 2006 - 452 pages
...and poor encounter different bundles of jokes and may hear very different messages in a given joke. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.141 Does the joke corpus tell us about the legal culture? Do these stories give us a reliable reading...
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Secretly Inside: A Novel

Hans Warren - Jews - 2006 - 584 pages
...:h and poor encounter different bundles of jokes and may hear very differei essages in a given joke. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.141 oes the joke corpus tell us about the legal culture? o these stories give us a reliable reading...
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The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare: Text and Theatrical Technique

Christopher J. Cobb - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 312 pages
...Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. (855-57) That impossibility, it turns out, is precisely her point: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (861-63) The structure of Rosaline's test corresponds quite closely to the circumstances of The Winter's...
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