 | British poets - 1824 - 678 pages
...dare ; I'll bring mine action on' the proudest he That stops my way in Padua. WIT. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. So, get you hence in peace ; and tell the Dauphin, His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1824 - 378 pages
...spirit is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools ; A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue Of him that makes it." Leo the Tenth was a character of this unami* " There cannot," says Lord Shaftesbury, in his essay on... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 380 pages
...begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies i'.i the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, Dcafd with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 504 pages
...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamour of their own dcart groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which (hallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity betwixt signior Benedick and her : they never meet, but there 19 a skirmish of wit betwe sickly ears, D^aTd with the clamours of their owu dear groans, Will hear roar idle scorns, continue... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools: A jrst's |)rnK|ierity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. Love's Labour Lost. Philology and the Belles Lcttres.. Since the revival of letters, too much honour... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (a) See ante, p. 28. (6) Rawley. and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf d with the clamours of their own dear69 groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 378 pages
...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, DeaPd with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear vour idle scorns, continue... | |
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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... 
