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" There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and ... - Seite 457
von William Shakespeare - 1765
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The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr

Sophocles - 1849 - 376 Seiten
...boast) such as Troy hath not seen in all the host 1 There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the world's sweet taste, That it yields nought but shame...
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Notes and Queries

1882 - 644 Seiten
...our life steals to an end "; which may be compared with the following lines from King John : — " Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." Act III. se. ir. This parallel with others is referred to in Judge Holmes'« most convincing...
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Shakespeare's Stagecraft

J. L. Styan - 1967 - 260 Seiten
...Prince Arthur and the grief of his mother Constance, There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. (m, iv, 107-9) unite mood and sentiment in the drama of the scene. The idiom of such speech,...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 Seiten
...Shaw on MORALITY; Beecham on Music; Barrie, Wilson on The SCOTS; Muggeridge on SEX; Shaw on VICE Ennui Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Lewis, Kingjohn William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet She, while her...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 Seiten
...statesman. Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" (On Tranquilily of Mind), set. 2, subset. 1 5. 9 e Letters of the farl of Chesterfield to His drowsy man. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1 564-1 61 6), English dramatist, poel. Louis the Dauphin, in Kinglohn,...
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Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis

Daniel Chapelle - 1993 - 268 Seiten
...all-too-familiar anecdotes. In the words of Shakespeare: "There's nothing in this world can make me joy. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man" (King John 3.4.107-9). Freud emphasizes this sense of timelessness: "Unconscious mental...
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The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History

Susan Howe - 1993 - 212 Seiten
...been published in magazines. The title could also be a reference to lines in Shakespeare's King John: "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." Coincidentally or uncannily, Twice-told Tales was published in 1837, exactly two hundred...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 Seiten
...fear some outrage, and I'll follow her. [Exit. LOUIS. There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And biner shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields naught but shame and...
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Mimesis and Its Romantic Reflections

Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 218 Seiten
...pronouncement on life as redundant imitation is spoken by Lewis ("a beardless boy, a cocker'd silken wanton"): "Life is as tedious as a twicetold tale / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man" (Kiag John, Act 3, scene 4. lines 108-9).' I n his 1851 preface to Twiie-Told Talrs (1837),...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 Seiten
...fear some outrage, and I'll follow her. [Exit. LOUIS. There's nothing in this world can make me joy: 'd w drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields naught but shame...
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