 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1886 - 264 strani
...game and domestic fowls; and he partially uses his knowledge in Jaques ' (As You Like It) remark : " I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs." WEATHER. In a nautical sense the weather (or windward) side is an advantage. WEATHER BITTEN. Rusted;... | |
 | 1925 - 960 strani
...fifty years on the music of the great poets have echoed with passion Jaques's whimsical complaint, " I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs"? But if Jaques had Hamlet's melancholy, he had not his charm. Booth had, and it drew all men and women... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 strani
...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. He resents Orlando's passion for Eosalind as Bome disparagement of his own passion for abstract truth ; and leaves the Duke, as soon... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1893 - 480 strani
...of bright, and suggest laborious search, and not involuntary mind-play. He is ' compact of jars '; he can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs ; he speaks of sleeping and railing as of the two sides of his normal condition. We have the Duke throughout... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1891 - 196 strani
...more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. 10 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 you... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1894 - 506 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 3'ou... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 268 strani
...of knowledge of them that only the countryman has. In "As You Like It," Jaques tells Amiens: — "I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs." Every gamekeeper, and every farmer for that matter, knows how destructive the weasel and its kind are... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1955 - 1660 strani
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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. 
