Wit and HumorLeigh Hunt Wiley & Putnam, 1846 - 261 páginas |
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... looks of Ironies , corpulences of Exaggerations , ticklings of mad Fancies , claps on the back of Horse - plays , com- placencies of Unawarenesses , flounderings of Absurdities , irresist ibilities of Iterations , significancies of ...
... looks of Ironies , corpulences of Exaggerations , ticklings of mad Fancies , claps on the back of Horse - plays , com- placencies of Unawarenesses , flounderings of Absurdities , irresist ibilities of Iterations , significancies of ...
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... look or gesture , passeth for it . Sometimes an affected simplicity , sometimes a presumptuous bluntness , gives it being . Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting ob- vious ...
... look or gesture , passeth for it . Sometimes an affected simplicity , sometimes a presumptuous bluntness , gives it being . Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting ob- vious ...
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... looks like a satur- nine self - sufficiency . There are numerous occasions , undoubt- edly , when we laugh out of a contemptuous sense of superiority , or at least when we think we do so . But on occasions of pure mirth and fancy , we ...
... looks like a satur- nine self - sufficiency . There are numerous occasions , undoubt- edly , when we laugh out of a contemptuous sense of superiority , or at least when we think we do so . But on occasions of pure mirth and fancy , we ...
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... look'd upon his watch again , He found how much old Time had been a winner- He also found that he had lost his dinner . Canto i . , st . 94 . Epigrammatic Wit may be held to belong to this form ; though in general it announces itself by ...
... look'd upon his watch again , He found how much old Time had been a winner- He also found that he had lost his dinner . Canto i . , st . 94 . Epigrammatic Wit may be held to belong to this form ; though in general it announces itself by ...
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... looks like inten- tional burlesque , are expressions of considerable force and beauty . It This self - knowledge is a ... look so closely into himself . His sonnets are not without intimations of personal and other defects ; but they ...
... looks like inten- tional burlesque , are expressions of considerable force and beauty . It This self - knowledge is a ... look so closely into himself . His sonnets are not without intimations of personal and other defects ; but they ...
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Página 251 - 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, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and...
Página 218 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise...
Página 181 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Página 90 - And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy 'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Página 89 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Página 208 - The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams 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.
Página 193 - And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty: Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Heywood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology...
Página 4 - 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...
Página 160 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Página 211 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.