Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay, and Critical CommentsSmith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 357페이지 |
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... themselves past , when they come suddenly to remembrance , except they bring with them any present dishonour . " - Treatise on Human Nature , chap . ix . recedes , only to re - issue with double force ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... themselves past , when they come suddenly to remembrance , except they bring with them any present dishonour . " - Treatise on Human Nature , chap . ix . recedes , only to re - issue with double force ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... comes heaviness . Mirth itself is too often but me- lancholy in disguise . The jests of the fool in Lear are the sighs of knowledge . But as far as Wit and Humour affect us on their own accounts , or unmodi- fied by graver ...
... comes heaviness . Mirth itself is too often but me- lancholy in disguise . The jests of the fool in Lear are the sighs of knowledge . But as far as Wit and Humour affect us on their own accounts , or unmodi- fied by graver ...
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... come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing , that I have been glad , for the lady's sake , the lover was at a sufficient distance from it . " - Ib . No. 102 . In Addison's time it was a fashion for ladies to ...
... come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing , that I have been glad , for the lady's sake , the lover was at a sufficient distance from it . " - Ib . No. 102 . In Addison's time it was a fashion for ladies to ...
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... come to sarcasm and scorn , you come ( as a misanthropist would say ) to man- kind . There is another form of irony more surprising than this ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 21.
... come to sarcasm and scorn , you come ( as a misanthropist would say ) to man- kind . There is another form of irony more surprising than this ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 21.
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... comes from the same imitative root as burrasca and burberia ( storm and swelling ) , and originates in the puffing and blowing of the cheeks of the old comedians . This is the caricature and contradic- tion of the serious in pretension ...
... comes from the same imitative root as burrasca and burberia ( storm and swelling ) , and originates in the puffing and blowing of the cheeks of the old comedians . This is the caricature and contradic- tion of the serious in pretension ...
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151 페이지 - A woman moved, is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it.
339 페이지 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks...
248 페이지 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
137 페이지 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...
283 페이지 - Planets through the boundless Sky. Some less refin'd, beneath the Moon's pale Light Pursue the Stars that shoot athwart the Night ; Or suck the Mists in grosser Air below, Or dip their Pinions in the painted Bow, Or brew fierce Tempests on the wintry Main, Or o'er the Glebe distil the kindly Rain.
80 페이지 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages), Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
286 페이지 - The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
5 페이지 - 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...
341 페이지 - He cherish'd his friend, and he relish'da bumper ; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper. Perhaps you may ask if the man was a miser? I answer, no, no, for he always was wiser : Too courteous, perhaps, or obligingly flat?
299 페이지 - Unwater'd see the drooping sea-horse mourn, And swallows roost in Nilus' dusty urn. My lord advances with majestic mien, Smit with the mighty pleasure to be seen : But soft — by regular approach — not yet — First...