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 ... - 第416页作者:Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853全本阅读 - 图书信息
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 页
...feast together : Most welcome home ! ^Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelnn. 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 j for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 502 页
...feast together: Most welcome home! [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. POL. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate' What majesty...time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, Andtediousnessthelimbs and outward flourishes,— I will be brief: Your noble son is mad: Mad call... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1820 - 512 页
...CORNELIUS. POL. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate* What majesty should he, what duty is, Why day is day, night, night, and time...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... | |
| 1821 - 656 页
...way of introducing his solution of Hamlet's madness. But that witty play on words in the outset — " My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity "s the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c.— shews... | |
| 1821 - 658 页
...way of introducing his solution of Hamlet's madness. But that witty play on words in the outset — " My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity 's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c.— shews... | |
| 1821 - 662 页
...introducing his solution of Hamlet's madness. But that witty play on words in the outset — " My liege, anil madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what...night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity 's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c.— shews... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 页
...does the poet ridicule the reasoning in fashion, where he makes Polonius remark on Hamlet's madness : What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night, night, and time is time, ness. It was madness indeed, yet Polonius could comfort himself with this reflection, that at least... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 558 页
...that age thought the most essential quality of a good discourse, would make amends for the madWhat majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night, night, and time is time, ness. It was madness indeed, yet Polonius could comfort himself with this reflection, that at least... | |
| 1822 - 690 页
...words in the outset— What majesty should be, what duty is, " My liege, and madam, to expostulate Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore—since brevity's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, •I... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 490 页
...[Exeunt Voltimand and Coinelius. Pol. This business is well ended My liege, and madam, to expostulatei What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day,...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... | |
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