Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, Band 1Appleton., 1867 |
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... sort , The grand committee held their court ; While all the crew , in silent awe , Wait from their lips the lore of law . Few moments , with deliberation , They hold the solemn consultation ; When soon in judgment all agree , And Clerk ...
... sort , The grand committee held their court ; While all the crew , in silent awe , Wait from their lips the lore of law . Few moments , with deliberation , They hold the solemn consultation ; When soon in judgment all agree , And Clerk ...
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... sort of paper represents some man . Pray note the fop , -half powder and half lace , - Nice as a bandbox were his dwelling - place ; He's the gilt paper , which apart you store , And lock from vulgar hands in th ' escritoire . Mechanics ...
... sort of paper represents some man . Pray note the fop , -half powder and half lace , - Nice as a bandbox were his dwelling - place ; He's the gilt paper , which apart you store , And lock from vulgar hands in th ' escritoire . Mechanics ...
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... sort of a fellow , and it was his interest to keep in with him , he generally turned off the compliment with a laugh , saying , good - naturedly enough , “ Let him laugh that wins , " without explaining his mean- ing , though it might ...
... sort of a fellow , and it was his interest to keep in with him , he generally turned off the compliment with a laugh , saying , good - naturedly enough , “ Let him laugh that wins , " without explaining his mean- ing , though it might ...
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... sort of a body , yet always minded her spinning and knitting , and took excellent care of her dairy . She always clothed her children in homespun garments , and scarcely ever spent a farthing for outlandish trinkets . The family and all ...
... sort of a body , yet always minded her spinning and knitting , and took excellent care of her dairy . She always clothed her children in homespun garments , and scarcely ever spent a farthing for outlandish trinkets . The family and all ...
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... sort of butt , on whose shoulders every ridiculous incident was re- gularly fathered , whether it owed its paternity to The valiant Viscount advanced with great intre- him or not . As Pasquin stands sponsor for all the pidity close to ...
... sort of butt , on whose shoulders every ridiculous incident was re- gularly fathered , whether it owed its paternity to The valiant Viscount advanced with great intre- him or not . As Pasquin stands sponsor for all the pidity close to ...
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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...