 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...says that merry knight, " take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." — Steele. MXLII. Our fathers prais'd rank ven'son. You suppose, Perhaps, young men ! our fathers... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...pride to gird' at me ; The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. 1 do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath o'erwhclmed all her litter but one. If the »rince... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able lo vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. — Falstaff— Shakspeare. CCCCLXX. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invept, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men—Falataff— Shakspeare. CCCCLXX. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...pride to gird1 at me ; The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath o'erwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...pride to gird' at me ; The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath o'erwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 1022 pages
...this foolUli-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends i ' laughter, mure than 1 Fang, An I but fist him once ; an *a cam but within my vice : — Has. I am undone la iu other men. 1 do bere walk before tbee, like a sow, that bath overwhelmed all her litter but our.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 522 pages
...pride to gird 3 at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than 1 peare( I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince... | |
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Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is... 
