An Outline of Humor: Being a True Chronicle from Prehistoric Ages to the Twentieth CenturyCarolyn Wells G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923 - 782 Seiten |
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... began to see a lighter side of life . Indeed , as Mr. Wells tells us , they mimicked very cleverly , gestured , danced and laughed before they could talk ! And the consideration of the development of this almost innate human sense is ...
... began to see a lighter side of life . Indeed , as Mr. Wells tells us , they mimicked very cleverly , gestured , danced and laughed before they could talk ! And the consideration of the development of this almost innate human sense is ...
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... began . From mimicry was born exaggeration and the horns and painted masks were grotesque and mirth - provoking . Yet were they also used to inculcate fear , and moreover had significance as expressions of sorrow and woe . Thus the ...
... began . From mimicry was born exaggeration and the horns and painted masks were grotesque and mirth - provoking . Yet were they also used to inculcate fear , and moreover had significance as expressions of sorrow and woe . Thus the ...
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... began to erect permanent buildings , and to ornament them , the favourite subjects of their ornamentation were such as presented ludicrous ideas . The warrior , too , who caricatured his enemy in his speeches over the festive board ...
... began to erect permanent buildings , and to ornament them , the favourite subjects of their ornamentation were such as presented ludicrous ideas . The warrior , too , who caricatured his enemy in his speeches over the festive board ...
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... worldly possessions consisted of a little field . When she began to plough it , a Jewish official quoted to her the words of the lawgiver Moses : ' Thou shalt not plough with ox and ass together . ' When ANCIENT HUMOR 31.
... worldly possessions consisted of a little field . When she began to plough it , a Jewish official quoted to her the words of the lawgiver Moses : ' Thou shalt not plough with ox and ass together . ' When ANCIENT HUMOR 31.
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... began to sow , she was admonished in the words of the same lawgiver not to sow the fields with two kinds of seed . When she began to reap and pile up the stacks , she was told that she must leave ' gleanings , ' the poor man's sheaf ...
... began to sow , she was admonished in the words of the same lawgiver not to sow the fields with two kinds of seed . When she began to reap and pile up the stacks , she was told that she must leave ' gleanings , ' the poor man's sheaf ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 292 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 372 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Seite 370 - 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?
Seite 491 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Seite 382 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Seite 373 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; 8.
Seite 305 - Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.
Seite 278 - Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter...
Seite 687 - Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
Seite 306 - Who, in their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending: And if they make reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but lust; Tell time it is but motion; Tell flesh it is but dust: And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.