...agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : " A...hears it ; never in the tongue Of him that makes it." NATURE AND ART. NATURE is not at variance with art; nor art with nature ; they being both the servants...

...of laughing was the proprium of Man as animal rationale. — Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiosis , 59 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. — Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, V, 2 MY ARGUMENT IN the preceding two chapters has been that...

...heaven and earth, Horatio" or Edgar's "Ripeness is all," and sometimes portentous utterances like these: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (Love's Labour's Lost V.ii. 871-73) The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth...

...to substantiate his claim that the success of the Witzarheit can onlv be judged by a third person. 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it' ( 144). The inherent intersubjectivity of the joke becomes essential in the process ofEvleiebterung....

...ROSALINE. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot ofthat loose grace C (u r 1c ab hXE ,! U-F Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And...

...task shall be With all the fierce endeavour of your wit To enforce the pained impotent to smile. is A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears...tongue Of him that makes it. Then, if sickly ears, Deafed with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, 20 And...

...self-aggrandizement, but to cheer up others. Rosaline hopes that Berowne will come to discover for himself that "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.861-63). She calls his jests "idle scorns" and twice refers to his "gibing spirit" as a "fault,"...

...over; for a twelvemonth he must visit 'the speechless sick' and make them smile. Rosaline's homily, 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it' (859-61) is not only good moral sense but a sound articulation of the importance of plain talk in Shakespeare...

...to go to bed before I get home!" Augusta State Rights' Sentinel, June 19, 1835, 3. THE DEAF LADIES. "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it: never in the tongue Of him that makes it." — Shakespeare. A gentleman who was fond of enjoying a hearty laugh at the expense sometimes of his...

...from Love's Labour's Lost reveal a notion of the jest as a commodity to be defined by its exchange: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.* From the sixteenth century, when the term "jest" was first used to designate all manner of laughable...