Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay, and Critical CommentsSmith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 357 страница |
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... write verse in order to concentrate their powers and sharpen their effect ; but it will never be of any high or inspired order . It will be pipe and tabor music ; not that of the organ or the orchestra . Juvenal sometimes gives us ...
... write verse in order to concentrate their powers and sharpen their effect ; but it will never be of any high or inspired order . It will be pipe and tabor music ; not that of the organ or the orchestra . Juvenal sometimes gives us ...
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... writer followed them up with illustra- tions , and so have been tempted to endeavour at completing the subject , one almost fancies he might have done so . But he was truly in a state of embarras des richesses — of perplexity with his ...
... writer followed them up with illustra- tions , and so have been tempted to endeavour at completing the subject , one almost fancies he might have done so . But he was truly in a state of embarras des richesses — of perplexity with his ...
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... writer , and not as the power of treating it , derives its name from the prevailing quality of moisture in the bodily temperament ; and is a ten- dency of the mind to run in particular directions of thought or feeling more amusing than ...
... writer , and not as the power of treating it , derives its name from the prevailing quality of moisture in the bodily temperament ; and is a ten- dency of the mind to run in particular directions of thought or feeling more amusing than ...
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... writer gives a comic turn to an apparently grave passage . It is a favourite with the Italians , from whom it has been imitated by a writer who has equalled their satirists in wit , and surpassed them in poetry . I need not say that I ...
... writer gives a comic turn to an apparently grave passage . It is a favourite with the Italians , from whom it has been imitated by a writer who has equalled their satirists in wit , and surpassed them in poetry . I need not say that I ...
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... write a great deal of mock - heroic without knowing it , that one of its secrets consists in an application of old metaphors , inversions , and other conventional and ancient forms of speech to modern languages . Much wit in prose is ...
... write a great deal of mock - heroic without knowing it , that one of its secrets consists in an application of old metaphors , inversions , and other conventional and ancient forms of speech to modern languages . Much wit in prose is ...
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Ambrose Philips Andrew Marvel animal spirits Apho APHOBUS Aristophanes Bacurius banter beat Ben Jonson Bessus bous brother call'd Charles Lamb Chaucer Colax Corb Corv courtepy cried Deil devil doth duke exaggeration exquisite eyes fairy Falstaff fancy father fear fool Friar John G. H. Lewes Gent gentlemen give grace GRUMIO hand hast hath heart Heaven hire honour horse Hudibras humour Igno Jaques Kate Kath KATHARINA kick'd king Lady laugh laughter lord Macaronic madam master mock-heroic Molière Mosca never night Panurge passage PETRUCHIO poem poet poetry poor pray prince quoth Rabelais racter rhymes satire servant Shakspeare Signior soul summoner Tartuffe tell thee ther things thou art thought unto valiant verse Volp Volpone Voltaire whan wife woman word write
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