 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 104 strani
...more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, monsieur Jaques. 10 Jaq. 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. Ami. My voice is ragged ; I know I cannot please you. Jaq. I do not desire... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 946 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... | |
 | 1883 - 122 strani
...ROBB. " Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?" SCHRODER. " I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs." SCHWEDES. "I am the very pink of courtesy." SNYDER. " Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee !... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1884 - 362 strani
...prince of philosophical Idlers; his only passion is thought ; he sets no value on any thing but as it serves as food for reflection. He can ' suck melancholy...is the greatest prize he meets with In the forest. Ho resents Orlando's passion for Rosalind as some disparagement of his own passion for abstract truth;... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 336 strani
...knowledge of them that only the countryman has. In "As You Like It," Jatjues 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 404 strani
...Amiens. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. 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. yaques. I do not desire... | |
 | 1884 - 720 strani
...wanton creature,' 'flippant, pert, and full of play.' They stop to -watch it crack its nuts and 1 'I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.' — As You Iiikc It. 2 Moore has a joke hero. drop its shells, admire its peep into ' the brown hermit's... | |
 | Philip Stewart Robinson - 1885 - 406 strani
...(Shakespeare), "wicked" weasel, finds barely a dozen references in all the range of poetry, though to the 1 " I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs." — As You Like It. prosaic mind this elegant little monster is full of significances. At any rate... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
