 | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - 1998 - 428 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Daniel Wickberg - 1998 - 292 pàgines
...from Love's Labour's Lost reveal a notion of the jest as a commodity to be defined by its exchange: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.* From the sixteenth century, when the term "jest" was first used to designate all manner of laughable... | |
 | Eve Rachele Sanders - 1998 - 288 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 10338 Love's Labour's Lost n thy lips. 10165 Antony and Cleopatra The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O! withered 10339 Macbeth FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND... | |
 | 1908 - 444 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William J. Fielding - 1999 - 392 pàgines
...party to a joke. Shakespeare realized this when he said, in Love's Labour's Lost (Act V, Scene 2) : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. The social value of these expressions of our more elementary nature, which contribute to the well-being... | |
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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... 
