Wit and HumorLeigh Hunt Wiley & Putnam, 1846 - 261 páginas |
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... turn themselves to all things , or turn all things to themselves . It also pro- cureth delight , by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ( as monsters , not for their beauty but their rarity — as juggling ...
... turn themselves to all things , or turn all things to themselves . It also pro- cureth delight , by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ( as monsters , not for their beauty but their rarity — as juggling ...
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... turns the help into a compliment , by implying our participation in the process . It does not follow that everything witty or humorous excites laughter . It may be accompanied with a sense of too many other things to do so ; with too ...
... turns the help into a compliment , by implying our participation in the process . It does not follow that everything witty or humorous excites laughter . It may be accompanied with a sense of too many other things to do so ; with too ...
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... turns it into a truth . Shine but on age , you melt its snow ; Again fires long extinguished glow , And charm'd by witchery of eyes , Blood , long congealèd , liquefies ! True miracle , and fairly done , By heads which are ador'd while ...
... turns it into a truth . Shine but on age , you melt its snow ; Again fires long extinguished glow , And charm'd by witchery of eyes , Blood , long congealèd , liquefies ! True miracle , and fairly done , By heads which are ador'd while ...
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... surprising than this , or at least more startling ; for the surprise in Swift may be said to be constant . It is when the writer gives a comic turn to an appa- rently grave passage . It is a favorite with the 14 AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY.
... surprising than this , or at least more startling ; for the surprise in Swift may be said to be constant . It is when the writer gives a comic turn to an appa- rently grave passage . It is a favorite with the 14 AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY.
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... turn like heav'n , the skies like flowers , And every wind fell sleeping on the sea ; Only the Zephyr with his gentle powers Mov'd the soft herbage on the flowery lea : Nightingales murmur'd still their loves and pities , And jackasses ...
... turn like heav'n , the skies like flowers , And every wind fell sleeping on the sea ; Only the Zephyr with his gentle powers Mov'd the soft herbage on the flowery lea : Nightingales murmur'd still their loves and pities , And jackasses ...
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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.