Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... laughed at , with any mixture of wit , is ridiculous in itself . - Addison . XXV . While we are reasoning concerning life , life is gone , and death , though perhaps they receive him differently vet treats alike the fool and the ...
... laughed at , with any mixture of wit , is ridiculous in itself . - Addison . XXV . While we are reasoning concerning life , life is gone , and death , though perhaps they receive him differently vet treats alike the fool and the ...
Strana 8
... laughter been repressed by a malignant species of pride , refusing approbation to the author and actor , and renouncing society with the audience . - Smollet . XLI . In tragedy , the poet who flourished in the scene , is damned in the ...
... laughter been repressed by a malignant species of pride , refusing approbation to the author and actor , and renouncing society with the audience . - Smollet . XLI . In tragedy , the poet who flourished in the scene , is damned in the ...
Strana 30
... laughter , is poisoned between impertinence and folly . — Lavater . CXLIII . If a man's wits be wandering , let him study the ma- thematics ; for in demonstrations , if his wit be called away never so little , he must begin again ...
... laughter , is poisoned between impertinence and folly . — Lavater . CXLIII . If a man's wits be wandering , let him study the ma- thematics ; for in demonstrations , if his wit be called away never so little , he must begin again ...
Strana 35
... laugh , he is persuaded they laugh at him : he grows angry and testy , says something very imperti- nent , and draws himself into a scrape , by showing what he calls a proper spirit , and asserting himself . - Chester- field . CLXXI . A ...
... laugh , he is persuaded they laugh at him : he grows angry and testy , says something very imperti- nent , and draws himself into a scrape , by showing what he calls a proper spirit , and asserting himself . - Chester- field . CLXXI . A ...
Strana 42
... laughs equally at things pleasant or serious , to show her fine set of teeth if she discovers her ears , it is because they are small and pretty ; and if she does not dance , it is because she is not well satisfied with her shape ...
... laughs equally at things pleasant or serious , to show her fine set of teeth if she discovers her ears , it is because they are small and pretty ; and if she does not dance , it is because she is not well satisfied with her shape ...
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