Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, Band 1Appleton., 1867 |
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... called him " the most unfair preacher in the world , for he left nothing to be said on the other side . " Voltaire's enumeration of the shapes of Wit bears such a verisimilitude to the catalogue of the divine as to give authority to a ...
... called him " the most unfair preacher in the world , for he left nothing to be said on the other side . " Voltaire's enumeration of the shapes of Wit bears such a verisimilitude to the catalogue of the divine as to give authority to a ...
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... called Mirth , by whom she had issue Humor . Humor , therefore , being the young- est of this illustrious family , and descended from parents of such different dis- positions , is very various and unequal in his temper ; sometimes you ...
... called Mirth , by whom she had issue Humor . Humor , therefore , being the young- est of this illustrious family , and descended from parents of such different dis- positions , is very various and unequal in his temper ; sometimes you ...
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... called it Ma - re Mount . They lived , according to the chronicler of Plymouth , " in great licentiousness of life , in all profaneness , and the said Morton became lord of misrule , and maintained , as it were , a school of Atheism ...
... called it Ma - re Mount . They lived , according to the chronicler of Plymouth , " in great licentiousness of life , in all profaneness , and the said Morton became lord of misrule , and maintained , as it were , a school of Atheism ...
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... called at a tavern , in the fall of the year , for a dram . The landlord asked him two coppers for it . The next spring , happen- ing , at the same house , he called for another , and had three coppers to pay for it . " How is this ...
... called at a tavern , in the fall of the year , for a dram . The landlord asked him two coppers for it . The next spring , happen- ing , at the same house , he called for another , and had three coppers to pay for it . " How is this ...
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... called the old school ; the Greek. FROM OUR worthy knight , and his aspiring bog - trotter , had now been some days , perhaps weeks , in a large village , not necessary to be named ; but which , not more than a score of years ago , had ...
... called the old school ; the Greek. FROM OUR worthy knight , and his aspiring bog - trotter , had now been some days , perhaps weeks , in a large village , not necessary to be named ; but which , not more than a score of years ago , had ...
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Seite ix - ... 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; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Seite vii - ... expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical...
Seite 70 - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Seite ix - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite viii - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.
Seite 22 - Alternate ranged, extend in circling rows, Assume their seats, the solid mass attack ; The dry husks rustle and the corn-cobs crack ; The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips in silence round.
Seite 5 - Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle, dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy. And there we see a thousand men, As rich as 'Squire David; And what they wasted every day, I wish it could be saved.
Seite 46 - Boots, and all the other vagabond race that infest the purlieus of an inn; but the bustle was transient; the coach again whirled on its way; and boy and dog, and hostler and Boots, all slunk back again to their holes; the street again became silent, and the rain continued to rain on. In fact, there was no hope of its clearing up; the barometer pointed to rainy weather; mine...
Seite 45 - ... rising from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; an unhappy cur, chained to a doghouse hard by, uttered something every now and then, between a bark and a yelp; a drab of a...
Seite 13 - No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law...