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" Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh... "
Regimental Coventry; as it is at present acted upon in the British army - Page 64
by James Connell (army surgeon.) - 1837
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Kan men een hemel klaren, even zwart als drek?: historische, psychiatrische ...

Jan Godderis - 2000 - 236 pages
...vormen van "Lebensgrundstimmung" zinspeelt, wanneer hij Salarino in The merchant of Venice laat zeggen: "Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time: Some...parrots, at a bag-piper; And other of such vinegar aspéct, That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...— RJ III. Hi O mischief, thou art swift, To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! Romeo — RJ Vi Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time: Some...smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Solanio— MV Li There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...leap, and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed What, think you we are Turks or infidels? Or that...our persons' safety, Enforc'd us to this execution? SOLANIO. Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman, Gratiano, and Lorenzo. Fare ye well: We leave...
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Il mercante di Venezia

William Shakespeare - 2003 - 242 pages
...e dire Che siete allegro perché non siete triste. Nature hath framed strange fellows in her rime: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And...of smile Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Enter Bassanio, Lorenzo, and Grattano Here comes Bassanio your most noble kinsman, Granano, and Lorenzo....
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 2003 - 156 pages
...leap, and say you are merry Because you are not sad. Now by two-headed Janus, 50 Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time; Some that will evermore...That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile 55 Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO and GRATIANO Here comes Bassanio...
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester - 2004 - 292 pages
...the opening scene of The Merchant of Venice, Solanio gives us the first use of the word laughable — 'they'll not show their teeth in way of smile Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable'. Laugh itself is a word from the widely approved Old English; in 1596 Shakespeare added the Norman French...
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A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

S. P. Cerasano - 2004 - 228 pages
...leap, and say you are merry Because you are not sad. Now, by two headed Janus,31 50 Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes32 And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper,33 And other of such vinegar'4 aspect That they'll not...
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Shakespeare: The Golfer's Companion

Syd Pritchard - 2005 - 149 pages
...map, With the augmentation oj the Indies. [Twelfth Night IIIii85] Nature hathfram'd strangefellows in her time, Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper. [The Merchant Of Venice Ii52] The loner / know a man Who had this trick of melancholy . [All's Well...
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Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays

Arthur Schopenhauer - 2007 - 665 pages
...radical and innate diversity of temperament in those lines in The Merchant of Yemce: Nature has framed strange fellows in her time; Some that will evermore...eyes, And laugh, like parrots at a, bag-piper; And others of such vinegar aspect, That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear...
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