...in the throat of It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence...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...

...they are dry, barren, straminious, dull, and heavy ; and, indeed, " The influence Of a gibing spirit is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing...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...

...throat of death ? It cannot be ; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence...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...

...; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Kin. Why.that'sthewaytochokeagibingspirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace, Which...fools: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that Dears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, DeaPd with the clamours...

...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...

...death? t cannot be; it is impossible: Mirthcaunotmoveasoulin agony. Ros. Why, that'sthe way to chokea gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose...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,...

...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,...

...impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, W hose influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow...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...

...sjiirit, Whose influence is begot ofthat loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to foots : for some reasons I would not have seen. York. Which...some reasons, sir, I mean to see. I fear, I fear, Dit »ickly ears, IV-.t"tl with the clamours of their own dear groans, 144 tOVE'S LABOUR'S LOSTWill hearyoiur...

...more perfect giber of the table, than a necessary bencher of the capitol. Id. Coriolamu. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence...grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools. Shaluptare. His present portance Gibingly and ungravely he did fashion After the inveterate hate he...