Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222페이지 |
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... expressing different ideas , and countenancing , as it were , by a fatality of language , the mis- chievous insinuation which the person who has the wit to take advantage of it wishes to convey . So when the disaffected French wits ...
... expressing different ideas , and countenancing , as it were , by a fatality of language , the mis- chievous insinuation which the person who has the wit to take advantage of it wishes to convey . So when the disaffected French wits ...
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... expression . But this is by no means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait - laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose serious wit is more that of things , as opposed ...
... expression . But this is by no means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait - laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose serious wit is more that of things , as opposed ...
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... expression . The ancient philosophers also abounded in the same kind of wit , in telling home truths in the most unexpected manner . In this sense Æsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked ...
... expression . The ancient philosophers also abounded in the same kind of wit , in telling home truths in the most unexpected manner . In this sense Æsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked ...
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... 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 cun- ningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection ...
... 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 cun- ningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection ...
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... expression , which are intelligible only while they last , and not very interesting at any time . Shakspeare's characters are men ; Ben Jonson's are more like machines , gov- erned by mere routine , or by the convenience of the poet ...
... expression , which are intelligible only while they last , and not very interesting at any time . Shakspeare's characters are men ; Ben Jonson's are more like machines , gov- erned by mere routine , or by the convenience of the poet ...
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