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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... "
Characters of Shakespear's Plays - Page 195
by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 352 pages
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Ot him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears,1 Deafd with the clamours of their own dear t groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 436 pages
...begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity Ties in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue...sickly ears, Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear2 groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And I will have you, and that fault withal...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Midsummer night's ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...spirit, Whose 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...tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, DeaPd with the clamours of their own dear groans,1 Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And I...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...spirit, Whose 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...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 then, And I...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Ol 3 4 4 4V7A3 ' ' 7 4 6 2M3(8)8 7L6 8 8 6`)+8 6 6 6 7 736 8?8I+ clamour of their own deart groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And I will have you,...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and ...

Robert Burton - 1824 - 378 pages
...influence Of a gibing 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...
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The Plays, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 352 pages
...begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lias 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 dearf groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...spirit, Whose 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. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds...
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The Philomathic journal, Volume 1

Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...SHAKSPEARE.—"Love's Labour's Lost." malice which such " idle scorns" are likely to produce, seeing that— " A jest's prosperity lies in the ear : Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it." Byron was doomed to endure a strange destiny. He appeared as the great luminary of our literary hemisphere,...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...touch her whoever 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...
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