 | K. M. Khadye - 1922 - 84 pagina’s
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity which makes sport but raises no envy. It must be observed that he is... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 pagina’s
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise no envy. " One of the most difficult of all poets to quote from, we can only offer detached and fugitive fragments... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 108 pagina’s
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. These passages are embedded in Johnson's... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1979 - 160 pagina’s
...freely indulged, as his wit is not of the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise...not so offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth.10 Both tributes are excellent in their way, for they come from great spirits ; but how different... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - 1994 - 244 pagina’s
...Falstaff is a character loaded with faults, and with those faults which naturally produce contempt. ... It must be observed, that he is stained with no enormous...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pagina’s
...despises him by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. It must be observed that he is stained... | |
 | Robert Lawson-Peebles - 1996 - 180 pagina’s
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy.27 No finer comment can be made about... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 pagina’s
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. It must be observed that he is stained... | |
 | Tim Spiekerman - 2001 - 222 pagina’s
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. It must be observed that he is stained... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 186 pagina’s
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. It must be observed that he is stained... | |
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Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his wit is not... 
