My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward... The Friend: A Series of Essays, in Three Volumes, to Aid in the Formation of ... - Página 149de Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 375 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1822 - 690 páginas
...night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore—since brevity's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, •I will be brief," &c.— shows him to have been a complete master of the grace of insinuation. But these plans are play-work,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 páginas
...dotage encroaching upon wisdom, will solve all the phenomena of the character of Polonius. JOHNSON. Therefore, — since brevity is the soul of wit, And...Mad call I it : for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad : But let that go. Queen. More matter, with less art. Pol. Madam,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 490 páginas
...is, Why day is day, night, night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, — since brevity is the soul of wit, And...Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go. Queen. More matter, with less art. I'ol. Madam,... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 páginas
...is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time : Therefore — since brevity is the soul of wit, And...: Mad call I it ; for to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go. Queen. More matter, with less art. Pol. Madam,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 páginas
...Therefore, — since brevity is the soul of wit, And tedinusness the limbs and outward nourishes, — I will be brief: Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go. Queen. More matter, with less art. Pol. Madam,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 páginas
...— since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousues.8 the limbs and outward fiourislKS,— IiviJI be brief: Your noble son is mad: Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What ib't, but to be nothing else but mad : But let that go. Queen. More matter, with leas art. Pol. Madam,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 páginas
...is, Why day is day, night, night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, — since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, — 1 will be brief: Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is't,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 páginas
...is, Why day is day, night, night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, — since brevity is the soul of wit, And...Mad call I it : for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad : But let that go. 16 ie to inquire. ' Pnlnnias is a man bred... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 páginas
...nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore,—since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousuess the limbs and outward flourishes,— I will be brief:...mad: Mad call I it: for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad: But let that go. o 16 ie to inquire. * Polonius is a man bred... | |
| 1826 - 508 páginas
...time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity is the aoul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes...I will be brief: your noble son is mad : Mad call 1 it ; for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad ? Bat let that go. ,... | |
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