 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...soul in agony. [spirit, Rot. Why, that's the way to choak a gibing Whose influence is begot ofthat loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to...lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongut Of him that makes it. Then, if sickly ears, Deafl with the clamors of their own dear groans,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...the throat of death p It cannot be : it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Rosaline. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly eare, Deafd with the clamours of their own dear groans, . Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Drama - 1818 - 552 pages
...cannot be : it is impossible : • • " i ' ' 1 • * * Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Rosaline. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : 297 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue Of him that makes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...the throat of death ? It cannot he : it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a -mil in agony. Rosaline. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing bearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...in the throat of death? It cannot be ; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. líos. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that nears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...in the throat of death ? It cannot be ; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Ot him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears,1 Deafd with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...in the throat of death ? It cannot be ; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agonv. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit* Whose...laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity Ties in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...[death? Mirth cannot mo\ea soul in agony. Has. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, AV'hpsc ouch the instrument, To learn the order Ol him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, Deaf'd with the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...appeared to drop into its place, and be ready to assist in paying the reverence required. Again, " A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it." I thought, in quoting from memory, of " A jest's success," " A jest's renown," &c. I then turned to... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...wild laughter in the throat of It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds... | |
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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... 
