 | Russell Jackson, Robert Smallwood - 1989 - 220 strani
...liberties with the order in which these lines appear in the play, here's how Jaques describes himself. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - 1990 - 256 strani
...(2.1.45). His first substantial speech displays his gift for the disagreeably reductive simile ("I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs" [2.5.13]), and we soon hear his acid view of courtly life. Jaques compares courtly "compliment" to... | |
 | Elke Schartmann - 1990 - 266 strani
[ Prikaz vsebine te strani ni dovoljen ] | |
 | 1915 - 766 strani
...moods of comment on snatches of song, flung here and there. And like Jaques in As You Like It, I too "Can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs." And I know that no bout of my own ever made me as merry or as sentimental as Master Stepheno's, who... | |
 | Ejner J. Jensen - 1991 - 188 strani
[ Prikaz vsebine te strani ni dovoljen ] | |
 | Camille Wells Slights - 1993 - 316 strani
...moralizing demonstrates the human disposition to anthropomorphize nature. Conversely, Jaques' boast that he can 'suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs' (nv13), Orlando's description of his care of Adam as 'like a doe' nurturing her fawn (n.vii.128), and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 134 strani
...AMIENS It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. 10 JAQUES I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more. AMIENS My voice is ragged, I know I cannot please you. JAQUES I do not desire... | |
 | Maurice Charney - 1993 - 452 strani
[ Prikaz vsebine te strani ni dovoljen ] | |
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More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. 
