Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay, and Critical CommentsSmith, Elder and Company, 1846 - Počet stran: 357 |
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... perhaps more ; and plenty of matter remains for an additional volume , should the public care to have it . At the same time , he unexpectedly found himself unable to extract a great deal of what is otherwise excellent , on account of ...
... perhaps more ; and plenty of matter remains for an additional volume , should the public care to have it . At the same time , he unexpectedly found himself unable to extract a great deal of what is otherwise excellent , on account of ...
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... perhaps not at all . Addison first pointed it out in his papers on Wit in the Spectator : where , in commenting on this passage of Locke , he heightens the properties pointed out by the philosopher , by adding to them the requirements ...
... perhaps not at all . Addison first pointed it out in his papers on Wit in the Spectator : where , in commenting on this passage of Locke , he heightens the properties pointed out by the philosopher , by adding to them the requirements ...
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... perhaps because we are then made potentially alive to our existence , and feel ourselves a match for the challenge . Hobbes refers all laughter to a sense of triumph and " glory ; " and upon the principle here expressed , his opinion ...
... perhaps because we are then made potentially alive to our existence , and feel ourselves a match for the challenge . Hobbes refers all laughter to a sense of triumph and " glory ; " and upon the principle here expressed , his opinion ...
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... perhaps be thus enumerated . 1st . The direct Simile , as just given ; which is the readiest , most striking , and therefore most common and popular form . Thus Swift in his Rhapsody on Poetry ; - Epithets you link In gaping lines to ...
... perhaps be thus enumerated . 1st . The direct Simile , as just given ; which is the readiest , most striking , and therefore most common and popular form . Thus Swift in his Rhapsody on Poetry ; - Epithets you link In gaping lines to ...
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... attempted your passion to prove , Why were you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love ; But why did you kick me down stairs ? This kind of surprise , in its preceding form , ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 23.
... attempted your passion to prove , Why were you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love ; But why did you kick me down stairs ? This kind of surprise , in its preceding form , ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 23.
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Strana 315 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend* to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of -dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit: Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold,...
Strana 270 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Strana 258 - The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides ; While melting music steals upon the sky, And soften'd sounds along the waters die : Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay. All but the sylph — with careful thoughts opprest, Th' impending woe sat heavy on his breast.
Strana 275 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Strana 261 - Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A...
Strana 242 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Strana 317 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Strana 5 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Strana 317 - He cherish'd his friend, and he relish'da bumper ; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper. Perhaps you may ask if the man was a miser? I answer, no, no, for he always was wiser : Too courteous, perhaps, or obligingly flat?
Strana 239 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.