...loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Ot him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears,1 Deafd with the clamours of their own dear t groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue...

...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, Deaf d with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue...

...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, DeaPd with the clamours of their own dear groans,1 Will hear your idle scorns, continue...

...begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity Ties in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear2 groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue...

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...begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lias in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dearf groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue...

...Lost." malice which such " idle scorns" are likely to produce, seeing that— " A jest's prosperity lies in the ear : Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it." Byron was doomed to endure a strange destiny. He appeared as the great luminary of our literary hemisphere,...

...dare ; I'll bring mine action on' the proudest he That stops my way in Padua. WIT. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. So, get you hence in peace ; and tell the Dauphin, His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands...

...influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds...

...spirit is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools ; A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue Of him that makes it." Leo the Tenth was a character of this unami* " There cannot," says Lord Shaftesbury, in his essay on...