Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, Band 1Appleton., 1867 |
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... passing votes to reg'late trade . * Thus having borne them round the town , Last at the poll they set them down ; And ... passed at town - meetings , with the view to prevent the augmentation of prices , and stop the depreciation of the ...
... passing votes to reg'late trade . * Thus having borne them round the town , Last at the poll they set them down ; And ... passed at town - meetings , with the view to prevent the augmentation of prices , and stop the depreciation of the ...
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... passed a vote of censure , and wrote to the reverend gentleman for an explanation , from which it ap- peared that he did not address them as magistrates , but as individuals . 1792 . DEAR SIR , To perform the promise which 14 PAPER ; A ...
... passed a vote of censure , and wrote to the reverend gentleman for an explanation , from which it ap- peared that he did not address them as magistrates , but as individuals . 1792 . DEAR SIR , To perform the promise which 14 PAPER ; A ...
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... passed for such ; and whom he brought as having some recruiting talents , and might prevail with Teague to elope and join the company . " I suppose , " said the Indian treaty man , " you are the waiter of the captain who lodges here at ...
... passed for such ; and whom he brought as having some recruiting talents , and might prevail with Teague to elope and join the company . " I suppose , " said the Indian treaty man , " you are the waiter of the captain who lodges here at ...
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... passed as they were quietly taking what they called their night - caps , that is to say , strong glasses of brandy and water and sugar , or some other mixture of the kind ; after which they one after another rang for " Boots " and the ...
... passed as they were quietly taking what they called their night - caps , that is to say , strong glasses of brandy and water and sugar , or some other mixture of the kind ; after which they one after another rang for " Boots " and the ...
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... passed through his farm , he was on his way to the old homestead . He took the stage at Concord , New Hampshire , and had for a companion a very old man . After some conversation , he ascertained that the old man was from the ...
... passed through his farm , he was on his way to the old homestead . He took the stage at Concord , New Hampshire , and had for a companion a very old man . After some conversation , he ascertained that the old man was from the ...
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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...