Wit and HumorLeigh Hunt Wiley & Putnam, 1846 - 261 страница |
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... fool in Lear are the sighs of knowledge . But as far as Wit and Humor affect us on their own accounts , or unmodified by graver considerations , laughter is their usual result and happy ratification . The nature of Wit , therefore , has ...
... fool in Lear are the sighs of knowledge . But as far as Wit and Humor affect us on their own accounts , or unmodified by graver considerations , laughter is their usual result and happy ratification . The nature of Wit , therefore , has ...
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... fool- ish teeth . " Nothing of the kind can be better than this . It is painting the man at a blow , quick as the " flash " of his own " ivories . " It reminds us of the maxim , that " brevity is the soul of wit ; " a questionable ...
... fool- ish teeth . " Nothing of the kind can be better than this . It is painting the man at a blow , quick as the " flash " of his own " ivories . " It reminds us of the maxim , that " brevity is the soul of wit ; " a questionable ...
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... fool , and sot . A great prose wit , Arbuthnot ( who , by the way , left some interesting serious verses on the subject of Self - Knowledge , which are to be found in the same Collection ) , tells a friend in a letter , that the ...
... fool , and sot . A great prose wit , Arbuthnot ( who , by the way , left some interesting serious verses on the subject of Self - Knowledge , which are to be found in the same Collection ) , tells a friend in a letter , that the ...
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... fool's pun upon Archbishop Laud was a good one : - Great praise to God , and little Laud to the devil . Good Macaronic verses are laughable from the combination of the familiar and unfamiliar in the mixture of the two languages ...
... fool's pun upon Archbishop Laud was a good one : - Great praise to God , and little Laud to the devil . Good Macaronic verses are laughable from the combination of the familiar and unfamiliar in the mixture of the two languages ...
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... fools of Shak- speare are among the wisest of men . They talk Æsop and Solomon in every jest . Yet they amuse as much as they in- struct us . The braggart Parolles , whose name signifies words , as though he spoke nothing else ...
... fools of Shak- speare are among the wisest of men . They talk Æsop and Solomon in every jest . Yet they amuse as much as they in- struct us . The braggart Parolles , whose name signifies words , as though he spoke nothing else ...
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