 My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,...  細說莎士比亞論文集: a collection of essays - Page 255by 彭鏡禧 - 2004 - 470 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 350 pages
...at night we'll feast together. Most welcome home ! [Exeunt Embas. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief; your... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...we'll feast together: Most welcome home! [.Exeunt Volt. and Cor. Pot. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...Therefore, — since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousuess the limbs and outward flourishes, — I will be brief: Your noble son is mad : Mad call... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...[Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. Pol. This business is well ended; My liege, and madam, to expostulate3 What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day,...Mad call I it : for, to define true madness, What is 't, but to be nothing else but mad : But let that go. Queen. More matter, with less art. Pol. Madam,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...we'll feast together : T Most welcome home ! [Exeunt VOLT, and COR. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate* What majesty...time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore,—since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,—... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 390 pages
...both form and substance : or (as the following extract will exemplify) retains the outward form only. My liege and madam ! to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, 148 day is day, night night, and time it timr, Were nothing but to waste night, day and timr. Therefore... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...feast together : Most welcome home ! ^Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelnn. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...will be brief: Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it j for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go. Queen.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1819 - 502 pages
...feast together: Most welcome home! [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. POL. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate' What majesty...time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, Andtediousnessthelimbs and outward flourishes,— I will be brief: Your noble son is mad: Mad call... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...way of introducing his solution of Hamlet's madness. But that witty play on words in the outset — " My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity "s the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c.— shews... | |
 | 1821 - 658 pages
...way of introducing his solution of Hamlet's madness. But that witty play on words in the outset — " My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity 's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c.— shews... | |
 | 1821 - 662 pages
...introducing his solution of Hamlet's madness. But that witty play on words in the outset — " My liege, anil madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what...night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity 's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c.— shews... | |
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