 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 strani
...prince of philosophical idlers ; his only passion is thought ; he sets no value upon anything but as it serves as food for reflection. He can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs;"4 the motley fool, "who morals on the time,"5 is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 114 strani
...more. AMI. It will make you melancholy, monsieur Jaques. 1 1 JAQ. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs : More, I prithee, more, AMI. My voice is ragged ; I know I cannot please you. JAQ. I do not desire... | |
 | Alfred Roffe - 1878 - 146 strani
...AMIENS. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. JAQUES. I thank it. More, I pr'ythee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I pr'ythee, more. AMIENS. My voice is ragged ; I know I cannot please you. JAQUES. I do not desire... | |
 | 1878 - 542 strani
...following quotations. Its propensity for eggs is referred to by the melancholy Jaques, who says — " I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs." As You Like It. Act ii., Scene 5. " As quarrelous as a weasel" (Cymbeline, Act iii., Scene 4) may be... | |
 | 1879 - 588 strani
...Milton refers to as inspiring melancholy has inspired other poets with very different emotions. " I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs," said the pensive Jacques. So it ever is with man in his relation to nature ; he either, like Milton,... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 strani
...prince of philosophical idlers, and his only passion is thought. He set« no value on anything, but as it serves as food for reflection. He can ' suck melancholy...morals on the time,' is the greatest prize he meets in the forests." His famous soliloquy occurs in act ii., scene 7. See Мир-inn's Shaketpeare Character».... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 480 strani
...PAGE 92. Draw melancholy nourishment from you. Compare Jacques in As you like it, act ii. sc. v. : ' I can suck melancholy out of a song, As a weasel sucks eggs." NOTE 22, PAGE 93. with the appearances which, perhaps, every day for forty years had rendered familiar... | |
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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. 
