...to rule before. " SNEER. Reduced to rule ? " PUFF. 0 lud, sir ! you are very ignorant, I am afraid. Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts ; the principal are, the puff direct—the puff preliminary—the puff collateral — the puff collusive — and the puff oblique,...

...to rule before. " SNEER. Reduced to rule ? " PUFF. 0 lud, sir ! you are very ignorant, I am afraid. Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts ; the principal...Correspondent — or Advertisement from the Party." Such was the condition of this noble art sixty years since, and although even then in its nonage, its...

...rule, before. Sneer. Reduced to rule ? Puff. Oh, lud, sir ! you are very ignorant, I am afraid. — Yes, sir — Puffing is of various sorts : — the...Critique — Observation from Correspondent — or Advertisements from the Party. Sneer. The Puff direct, I can conceive — Puff. Oh, yes, that's simple...

...advertisements would render a collection of them carious. ' The puff direct, the puff preliminary, the pnff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puff oblique or puff by implication.' Such are the shapes which those who treat the subject scientifically have made these advertisements...

...distributed his literary treasures under proper heads. The generic puff in his hands branched out into the puff direct, the puff preliminary, the puff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puff oblique. Surely the Serjeant's sophisms were not less manageable than their prototypes ; and a degree of mental...

...reduced to rule before. Sneer. Reduced to rule? Puff. 0 lud, sir I you are very ignorant, I am afraid. Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts. The principal...party. Sneer. The puff direct I can conceive. Puff. 0 yes, that's simple enough. For instance, a new comedy or farce is to be produced at one of the theatres....

...to rule before. Sneer. Reduced to rule ? Puff. O lud, sir, you are very ignorant, I am afraid ? — Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts ; the principal...correspondent," or " advertisement from the party." Sneer. And do you think there are any who are influenced by this ? Puff. O lud, yes, sir ! the number of those...

...following detached passages, reminding the reader, upon the authority of Puff himself, that " puffs are of various sorts; the principal are the ' puff direct,'...collusive,' and the ' puff oblique ' or ' puff by implieation.'" " The hospital" (we quote the report before us) " is large and commodious, and fitted...

...panegyric, or professors of puffing, and dilated with all the affectionate partiality of an author, upon the puff direct, the puff preliminary, the puff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puff oblique, he evidently thought that the art he professed had been brought to a state of perfection. Poor Puff....

...this line which does not come under the classification of our old friend Puff, in the Critic, of " the puff direct, the puff preliminary, the puff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puft* oblique, or puff by implication," and certainly that gentleman illustrates the system far more...