Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay and Critical CommentsNorwood Editions, 1846 - 332 páginas |
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... never be of any high or inspired order . It will be pipe and tabor music ; not that of the organ or the orchestra . Juvenal sometimes gives us stately hexameters ; but then he was a very serious satirist , and worked himself up into a ...
... never be of any high or inspired order . It will be pipe and tabor music ; not that of the organ or the orchestra . Juvenal sometimes gives us stately hexameters ; but then he was a very serious satirist , and worked himself up into a ...
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... never be able to give any tolerable account of the matter . I experi- enced no such difficulty with the concentrating serious- ness and sweet attraction of the subject of " Imagina- tion and Fancy ; " but this laughing jade of a topic ...
... never be able to give any tolerable account of the matter . I experi- enced no such difficulty with the concentrating serious- ness and sweet attraction of the subject of " Imagina- tion and Fancy ; " but this laughing jade of a topic ...
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... never leave off whining and snivelling ? Come and help us . " " Don't swear , " said Panurge , " don't swear , holy father , my friend , I beseech you . To - morrow as much as you please . I drown . I'll give eighteen hundred thousand ...
... never leave off whining and snivelling ? Come and help us . " " Don't swear , " said Panurge , " don't swear , holy father , my friend , I beseech you . To - morrow as much as you please . I drown . I'll give eighteen hundred thousand ...
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... never mind how or in what condition ; oh , if I was but on firm land , with somebody kicking me . " * But I must get out of the company of Rabelais , or I shall never see land in this essay . The above is a hasty specimen of the sort of ...
... never mind how or in what condition ; oh , if I was but on firm land , with somebody kicking me . " * But I must get out of the company of Rabelais , or I shall never see land in this essay . The above is a hasty specimen of the sort of ...
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... never touch'd that herb till they were dead : Yet no man lards salt pork with orange - peel , Or garnishes his lamb with spitch - cock'd eel . Parody is not only a compliment instead of a satire , as some people think it , but a ...
... never touch'd that herb till they were dead : Yet no man lards salt pork with orange - peel , Or garnishes his lamb with spitch - cock'd eel . Parody is not only a compliment instead of a satire , as some people think it , but a ...
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Página 341 - 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,...
Página 268 - Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Página 284 - 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.
Página 287 - 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...
Página 263 - Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Página 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...
Página 288 - T' inclose the lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine clos'd, A wretched sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, • And screams of horror rend th
Página 343 - 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?
Página 265 - 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.
Página 301 - Unwater'd see the drooping sea-horse mourn, And swallows roost in Nilus' dusty urn. My lord advances with majestic mien, Smit with the mighty pleasure to be seen : But soft — by regular approach — not yet — First...