Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, Band 1Appleton., 1867 |
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... matter to the purpose . Often it consisteth in one knows not what , and springeth up one can hardly tell how . Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable , being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language ...
... matter to the purpose . Often it consisteth in one knows not what , and springeth up one can hardly tell how . Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable , being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language ...
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... matter . " His selection of specimens is far from happy ; and his arbitrary classification of the " Forms of Wit " is , in many instances , sciolistic and absurd . Leigh Hunt affirms that Addison first pointed out the necessity of ...
... matter . " His selection of specimens is far from happy ; and his arbitrary classification of the " Forms of Wit " is , in many instances , sciolistic and absurd . Leigh Hunt affirms that Addison first pointed out the necessity of ...
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... matter ? " At his bedside he then espied Sir Erskine at command , sir , Upon one foot he had one boot , And the other in his hand , sir . " Arise , arise , " Sir Erskine cries , " The rebels - more's the pity , Without a boat are all ...
... matter ? " At his bedside he then espied Sir Erskine at command , sir , Upon one foot he had one boot , And the other in his hand , sir . " Arise , arise , " Sir Erskine cries , " The rebels - more's the pity , Without a boat are all ...
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... matter was properly managed , so as to yield him some certain profit . To this sage they applied , and for the proper fees , which they clubbed for between them , they obtained a lease , under hand and seal ; wherein , for " sundry ...
... matter was properly managed , so as to yield him some certain profit . To this sage they applied , and for the proper fees , which they clubbed for between them , they obtained a lease , under hand and seal ; wherein , for " sundry ...
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... matters , and account the squires that bring challenges from knights , as people of but very small desert ? Thinking ... matter that requires the head to contrive , but the hand to execute . The greatest fool is as fit for it as a wise ...
... matters , and account the squires that bring challenges from knights , as people of but very small desert ? Thinking ... matter that requires the head to contrive , but the hand to execute . The greatest fool is as fit for it as a wise ...
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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...