...widow-comfort, and my sorrow's cure ! [Exit. K. Phi. I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her. Lew. There's nothing in this world can make me joy; Life is as...the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoiled the sweet world's l taste, That it yields nought, but shame, and bitterness. Pand. Before the...

...Phil. I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her. [Ex. Lew. There's nothing in this world, can make me Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; 7 And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields naught, but shame, and bitterness....

...it must break with silence, Jltre t be disburden'd with a liberal* tongue. 17— ii. 1. 197 There's nothing in this world, can make me joy : .Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,t Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 16— iii. 4. 198 Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud,...

...by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. o 2 Macbrth. Act v. Scene 5. Lewis. I/ife is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. King John. Act iii. Scene 4. Hotspur. Oh, Harry, thou hast robb'd tne of my youth; I better brook the...

...and my sorrow's cure ! \Exit. K. Phi. I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her. \Exit. Lew. There's nothing in this world, can make me joy: Life is as...drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet word's taste8, That it yields nought, but shame, and bitterness. 7 I will not keep this form upon my...

...lines of the Dauphin's on the fate of Prince Arthur and the grief of his mother Constance, There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as...twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. (m, iv, 107-9) unite mood and sentiment in the drama of the scene. The idiom of such speech, tuned...

...Shaw on MORALITY; Beecham on Music; Barrie, Wilson on The SCOTS; Muggeridge on SEX; Shaw on VICE Ennui Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Lewis, Kingjohn William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet She, while her lover pants...

...new history but rehashes old and all-too-familiar anecdotes. In the words of Shakespeare: "There's nothing in this world can make me joy. Life is as...twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man" (King John 3.4.107-9). Freud emphasizes this sense of timelessness: "Unconscious mental processes are...

...statesman. Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" (On Tranquilily of Mind), set. 2, subset. 1 5. 9 e Letters of the farl of Chesterfield to His WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1 564-1 61 6), English dramatist, poel. Louis the Dauphin, in Kinglohn, act 3,...

...been published in magazines. The title could also be a reference to lines in Shakespeare's King John: "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." Coincidentally or uncannily, Twice-told Tales was published in 1837, exactly two hundred years after...