| David Richman - 1990 - 212 Seiten
...emotional state to be moved and delighted. He has Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost admonish Berowne: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (5.2.849-51) In The Comedy of Errors, Antipholus of Syracuse rebukes both Dromios for jesting when... | |
| Valeria Finucci - 1992 - 352 Seiten
...of laughing was the proprium of Man as animal rationale. — Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiosis , 59 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. — Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, V, 2 MY ARGUMENT IN the preceding two chapters has been that... | |
| Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 Seiten
...be With all the fierce endeavour of your wit To enforce the pained impotent to smile. . . . that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence...grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools. (LLL 5.2.845-46, 850-52) 28. Roach, Player's Passion, 41. 29. Greene, "Groatsworth of Wit," in Complete... | |
| Julian Markels - 1993 - 180 Seiten
...heaven and earth, Horatio" or Edgar's "Ripeness is all," and sometimes portentous utterances like these: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (Love's Labour's Lost V.ii. 871-73) The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth... | |
| Carl Dale Hill - 1993 - 268 Seiten
...to substantiate his claim that the success of the Witzarheit can onlv be judged by a third person. 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it' ( 144). The inherent intersubjectivity of the joke becomes essential in the process ofEvleiebterung.... | |
| Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 Seiten
...over; for a twelvemonth he must visit 'the speechless sick' and make them smile. Rosaline's homily, 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it' (859-61) is not only good moral sense but a sound articulation of the importance of plain talk in Shakespeare... | |
| Michael J. Collins - 1997 - 268 Seiten
...self-aggrandizement, but to cheer up others. Rosaline hopes that Berowne will come to discover for himself that "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.861-63). She calls his jests "idle scorns" and twice refers to his "gibing spirit" as a "fault,"... | |
| 1908 - 444 Seiten
...114.'— Whal. First Epilogue. 2 Their fate is only in their hearers eares. Cf. LL L. 5. 2. 871-3 : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. 4 The maker. For a discussion of Jonson's use of the word ' maker ' cf. Henry, ed. Epiccme, Second... | |
| Eve Rachele Sanders - 1998 - 288 Seiten
...draws attention to the men's use of the language of the academy as an exclusionary tactic. But just as "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.838-40), so too the scholars can use their knowledge to diminish others only if those on the receiving... | |
| Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - 1998 - 428 Seiten
...to go to bed before I get home!" Augusta State Rights' Sentinel, June 19, 1835, 3. THE DEAF LADIES. "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it: never in the tongue Of him that makes it." — Shakespeare. A gentleman who was fond of enjoying a hearty laugh at the expense sometimes of his... | |
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