 | Henry Norman Hudson - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 360 pages
...fierce endeavour of your wit, To enforce the pained impotent to smile." This she rightly considers " The way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence...grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools." Hard as is the task " To move wild laughter in the throat of death," his lordship submits, justly esteeming... | |
 | Carl Dale Hill - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 268 pages
...to substantiate his claim that the success of the Witzarheit can onlv be judged by a third person. 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it' ( 144). The inherent intersubjectivity of the joke becomes essential in the process ofEvleiebterung.... | |
 | Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...heaven and earth, Horatio" or Edgar's "Ripeness is all," and sometimes portentous utterances like these: 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. 871-73) The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. ROSALINE. s like to lay upon us. ofthat loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...over; for a twelvemonth he must visit 'the speechless sick' and make them smile. Rosaline's homily, 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it' (859-61) is not only good moral sense but a sound articulation of the importance of plain talk in Shakespeare... | |
 | Michael J. Collins - Drama - 1997 - 268 pages
...self-aggrandizement, but to cheer up others. Rosaline hopes that Berowne will come to discover for himself that "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.861-63). She calls his jests "idle scorns" and twice refers to his "gibing spirit" as a "fault,"... | |
 | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 428 pages
...to go to bed before I get home!" Augusta State Rights' Sentinel, June 19, 1835, 3. THE DEAF LADIES. "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it: never in the tongue Of him that makes it." — Shakespeare. A gentleman who was fond of enjoying a hearty laugh at the expense sometimes of his... | |
 | Eve Rachele Sanders - Drama - 1998 - 288 pages
...draws attention to the men's use of the language of the academy as an exclusionary tactic. But just as "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.838-40), so too the scholars can use their knowledge to diminish others only if those on the receiving... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 10338 Love's Labour's Lost n thy lips. 10165 Antony and Cleopatra The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O! withered 10339 Macbeth FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND... | |
 | 1908 - 444 pages
...114.'— Whal. First Epilogue. 2 Their fate is only in their hearers eares. Cf. LL L. 5. 2. 871-3 : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. 4 The maker. For a discussion of Jonson's use of the word ' maker ' cf. Henry, ed. Epiccme, Second... | |
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