 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...he that has it. Act iii. Sc. 3. Are you good men and true ? Act iii. Sc. 3. • To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune ; but . to write 'and read comes by nature. Act iii. Sc. 3. Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. Act iii. Sc. 5. Comparisons are odorous.... | |
 | 1924 - 348 páginas
...perchance, they were akin to Dogberry, who was of the opinion (Much Ado About Nothing, III, iii, 15-17) that "to be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature." But it is not merely the Jack Cades and the Dogberrys who manifest a distrust of language-study. One... | |
 | 1862 - 1446 páginas
...Dogberry. Come hither, neighbour Seacoal: God hath blessed you with a good name: to be a well favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. Dogberry. You have ; I knew it would be your answer. Well , for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks,... | |
 | 1908 - 1476 páginas
...superior education, Dogberry 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,... | |
 | 1894 - 926 páginas
...Dogberry deliver himself 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 148 páginas
...10 write and read. DOGBERRY Come hither, neighbour Seacoal. God hath blessed you with a good name.98 To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read conies by nature. WATCH. 2 Both which, Master Constable DOGBERRY You have: I knew it would be your... | |
 | Gordon Williams - 1996 - 298 páginas
...another mysterious 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 - 1996 - 394 páginas
...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... | |
 | Patricia A. Parker - 1996 - 408 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 páginas
...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.... | |
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Well, for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it ; and for your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You are thought here to be the... 
