 | 1908 - 1476 pages
...goes about to moderate his self-esteem by the delightfully absurd antithesis "To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature "; and checks his ready claim to both by the equally delightful sarcasm: " Well, for your favour, sir,... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 926 pages
...to the watch of much inverted wisdom, and the choicest bit is in the words, "To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but to write and read comes by nature." The world has ever since laughed over this delicious bit of irony. It remembers the tears it shed in... | |
 | Patricia A. Parker - Drama - 1996 - 408 pages
...the day") stand exposed in the canon beside such comic inversions as Dogberry's "To be a well-favor'd man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature" (Much Ado about Nothing, III. iii. 14-16) or the complaint of the son of Henry VI against a father who "unnaturally"... | |
 | Gordon Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 298 pages
...language belonging to the literate, which buys them power inaccessible to himself: 'To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature' (III.iii.13). But it is Benedick, while still declaring himself an enemy of marriage, who draws print... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - Books and reading - 1996 - 394 pages
...treatise on astrology. Nothing had finally been resolved. And so it went. Conclusion 1 o be a well-favor'd man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature." Dogberry's remark in Much Ado About Nothing (3.3.14-16) makes us smile because this earnest constable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...DOOBBRRY. Come hither, neighbour Seacoal. God hath blest you with a good name; to be a well-favour'd Another SECOND WATCHMAN. Both which, master constable,— DOGBERRY. You have: I knew it would be your answer.... | |
 | David C. Parker - Religion - 1997 - 242 pages
...Text, Vol. n, Introduction (Cambridge and London, 1881) CHAPTER I The theory To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing Textual criticism is in essence the act of understanding... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. 10135 Much Ado About Nothing To be a well-favoured nter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. LIN 10136 Much Ado About Nothing I thank God, I am as honest as any man living, that is an old man and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 148 pages
...(Dogberry is the right master constable, IH.3.164) DOGBERRY Come hither, neighbor Seacoal. God hath u blessed you with a good name. To be a well-favored...of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. SECOND WATCHMAN [GEORGE SEACOAL] Both which, master constable DOGBERRY You have. I knew it would be... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...Words (trans. I. Clephane), I 20:29 [Dogberry, to Seacoal, a member of the Watch] To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. William Shakespeare, 1598-9, Much Ado About Nothing, III. iii. 13 20:30 [Posthumus, to Innogen, before... | |
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