 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 tongue...  The Monthly magazine - Page 298by Monthly literary register - 1810Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue, (conceit's expositor,) Delivers...gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravish'd; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. Prin. God bless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. Prin. God bless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, TV other turns lo a mirth-movin.r jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aIred ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So siveet and voluble... | |
 | John Morison Duncan - Atlantic States - 1823 - 436 pages
...uniformly chaste, classic and forcible. Of him it may with truth be said, he communicates his sentiments " 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 discourse." The editor... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers...gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse." * In the coincidence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 352 pages
...occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor), Delivers...gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. Prin. God bless... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 380 pages
...occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers...gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse."* * Act II.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers...gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. Prin. God bless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...occasion for his wit ; For every object, that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers...gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. Prin. God bless... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 600 pages
...occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest : Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor), Delivers...apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant ut his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse." And... | |
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