 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 Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Seite 189von William Shakespeare - 1767Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 Seiten
...The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers 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. (ni) Later Rosaline derides him for his attitude to... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 2002 - 286 Seiten
...Rosaline's description of Biton in Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, II, i, 73-5, whose tongue utters 'such apt and gracious words / That aged ears play truant at his tales, / And younger hearings are quite ravished'. 17 forsooth] truly. 19 pretending no more, doth intend] claiming to be nothing more than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 Seiten
...other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue — conceit's expositor — Delivers in such d a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Sleep when he wak ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. PRINCESS. God bless my ladies! are they all in love,... | |
 | Paul K. Saint-Amour - 2003 - 306 Seiten
...catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair pen (Conceit's expositor) Delivers 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, That hear him reason in Divinity, And, all-admiring,... | |
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