My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward... The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay ... - Page 416by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...together : Moat welcome home ! [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. Pol. This business is well ended. — My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: — Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for to define true madness, What is *t but to be... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...feast together : Most welcome home. [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam ; to expostulate What majesty...but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity5 is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...feast together : Most welcome home. [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam ; to expostulate What majesty...but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity5 is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...together : Most welcome home ! [Exeunt VOLTtMAND and CORNELlUS. Pol. This business is well ended. — My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Wby day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...feast together : Most welcome home. [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege , and madam ; to expostulate What majesty...tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, What is 't , but to be nothing... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...feast together. Most welcome home ! [Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius. Po. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate » What majesty...soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward florishei), — I will be brief. Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness,... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 428 pages
...readings which the editors of the folio had other reasons for knowing to be genuine. II. 2. POLONIUS. My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste day, night, and time. This is an admirable ridicule of the tedious exordiums which we sometimes find... | |
| Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...standard on his ramparts play." 55 1779.] CHAPTER XXI. Operations against the Indians. - Since brevity ia the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief." THE period had now arrived to chastise the Indians for the fiendish outrages they had committed.... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1867 - 1464 pages
...good, And shape to win grace though he had no wit. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 2, Scene 1. Folonious. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call it; for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1867 - 504 pages
...no wit. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 2, Scene 1. Polonioua. Mv liege, and madam, to expostulate >Vhat majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night...time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediouaness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call it;... | |
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