 | 1915 - 766 דפים
...moods of comment on snatches of song, flung here and there. And like Jaques in As You Like It, I too "Can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs." And I know that no bout of my own ever made me as merry or as sentimental as Master Stepheno's, who... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 134 דפים
...more. AMIENS It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. 10 JAQUES I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more. AMIENS My voice is ragged, I know I cannot please you. JAQUES I do not desire... | |
 | Camille Wells Slights - 1993 - 316 דפים
...moralizing demonstrates the human disposition to anthropomorphize nature. Conversely, Jaques' boast that he can 'suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs' (nv13), Orlando's description of his care of Adam as 'like a doe' nurturing her fawn (n.vii.128), and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 דפים
...more. io AMIENS It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. JAQUES I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more. AMIENS My voice is ragged, I know I cannot please you. JAQUES I do not desire... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 דפים
...referring to more habitual ways of relating - as for example the constantly depressed Jacques, who 'can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.' (As You Like It II.5. 1 1) The emotional aspect colours the contact in a qualitative way, and there... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 דפים
...find "No enemy / But winter and rough weather" (2.5.1-8). The song is in turn mocked by Jaques, who "can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs" and whose own verses provide a tart counterpoint to the song's cheerful pastoral images. Amiens's next... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - 1995 - 252 דפים
...would-be lover and the melancholy satirist both "feed" their humors in a sensual, self-indulgent fashion: "I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs," Jaques exults (2.5.12). 26. In a footnote, Lorraine Helms notes Rosalind's advance into "the anti-illusionistic... | |
 | Michael Bernhard, Henryk Szlajfer - 2010 - 501 דפים
...leaving any visible trace on the shell. That apparently was the source of the Shakespearean metaphor "I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs." On the basis of this, the Americans (supposedly Theodore Roosevelt) coined the expression, "weasel... | |
 | David B. Cohen - 1995 - 372 דפים
...wraps him in "a most humorous sadness." No malevolence here, however, nothing misanthropic. The man who can "suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs" still cares, and may love again, notwithstanding his gloomy posturing. His is the philosophical melancholy... | |
 | Michael Morrison - 2013 - 120 דפים
...Jaques asks for more. Amiens protests that the music will make laques melancholy, but Jaques retorts, "I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more!" Jaques persists, and finally Amiens agrees to sing another verse. Amiens tells... | |
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More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. 
