 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 strani
...noticed many years ago, is the tendency to refer to animals and other aspects of country living: Jaques 'can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs'; Rosalind is 'native' to the forest 'as the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled'; Touchstone... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 strani
...find "No enemy / But winter and rough weather" (2.5.1-8). The song is in turn mocked by Jaques, who "can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs" and whose own verses provide a tart counterpoint to the song's cheerful pastoral images. Amiens's next... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 strani
...referring to more habitual ways of relating - as for example the constantly depressed Jacques, who 'can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.' (As You Like It II.5. 1 1) The emotional aspect colours the contact in a qualitative way, and there... | |
 | David B. Cohen - 1995 - 372 strani
...wraps him in "a most humorous sadness." No malevolence here, however, nothing misanthropic. The man who can "suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs" still cares, and may love again, notwithstanding his gloomy posturing. His is the philosophical melancholy... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - 1995 - 252 strani
...lover and the melancholy satirist both "feed" their humors in a sensual, self-indulgent fashion: "I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs," Jaques exults (2.5.12). 26. In a footnote, Lorraine Helms notes Rosalind's advance into "the anti-illusionistic... | |
 | Michael Bernhard, Henryk Szlajfer - 2010 - 501 strani
...leaving any visible trace on the shell. That apparently was the source of the Shakespearean metaphor "I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs." On the basis of this, the Americans (supposedly Theodore Roosevelt) coined the expression, "weasel... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 889 strani
[ Prikaz vsebine te strani ni dovoljen ] | |
 | Michael Morrison - 2013 - 120 strani
...Jaques asks for more. Amiens protests that the music will make laques melancholy, but Jaques retorts, "I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more!" Jaques persists, and finally Amiens agrees to sing another verse. Amiens tells... | |
 | Edward Tomarken - 1997 - 646 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. 
