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" 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... "
The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ... - Page 21
by William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 385 pages
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare...: Embracing a Life of ..., Issue 2

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 568 pages
...but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His rye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare...: Embracing a Life of ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 576 pages
...Biron, " that merry mad-cap lord," is not overrated in Rosaline's admirable character of him — " A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth crich, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; — So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Shakspeare...
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The "impersonality" of Shakespeare

Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 pages
...! how he will spend his wit ! How he will triumph, leap and laugh at it ! Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...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...
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Crowell's Handbook for Readers and Writers: A Dictionary of Famous ...

Henrietta Gerwig - 1925 - 748 pages
...publican, who not only wrote the words and tunes of songs, but sang them also, and sang them well. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent...catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which hi-j fuir tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears plïiy...
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The Works of Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1906 - 252 pages
...capital apte to keepe . . . like over sharpe V. His Shape would win grace, even Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,...his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch 70 The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in...
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The Shakespeare Mystery

Georges Auguste Connes - 1927 - 294 pages
...the limits of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for hia wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The...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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 26

1870 - 850 pages
...Shakespeare has embalmed one of the characters in Love's Labor Lost : — 11 A merrier man, Within UK limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk...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...
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Shakespearean Metadrama: The Argument of the Play in Titus Andronicus, Love ...

James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pages
...capacity for a kind of auto-conception involving the eye, wit, and language: Berowne they call him; but a merrier man Within the limit of becoming mirth I...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...
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Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy

Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 pages
...of 'wit' and the remoteness of the materials it brings together, as in Rosaline's tribute to Berowne His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object...Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers. But this praise of wit is not altogether unambiguous, since the Princess has just spoken of 'such short-lived...
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Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the Comedies

Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...admiration of their speech (and Berowne's in particular) as a resplendent 'key of conceptions': Ros. His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object...expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words. (2. 1. 69ff.) And the pedants, naturally, invest all their efforts in the elaboration of verba as a...
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