Wit and HumorLeigh Hunt Wiley & Putnam, 1846 - 261 Seiten |
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... quod burgum est Logica ? Mus . Est una artium liberalium . Igno . Liberalium ? Sic putabam . In nomine Dei , stude artes parcas et lucrosas non est mundus pro artibus liberalibus jam . Mus . Deditus etiam fui amori Philosophiæ . Igno ...
... quod burgum est Logica ? Mus . Est una artium liberalium . Igno . Liberalium ? Sic putabam . In nomine Dei , stude artes parcas et lucrosas non est mundus pro artibus liberalibus jam . Mus . Deditus etiam fui amori Philosophiæ . Igno ...
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... quod the Sompnour , haile and wel atake . Welcome , quod he , and every good felàw . Whider ridest thou under this grene shaw ? ( Saide this yeman ) wolt thou fer to - day ? A summoner , who was ever on the watch for prey , rode forth ...
... quod the Sompnour , haile and wel atake . Welcome , quod he , and every good felàw . Whider ridest thou under this grene shaw ? ( Saide this yeman ) wolt thou fer to - day ? A summoner , who was ever on the watch for prey , rode forth ...
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... ( quod he ) is min entent To riden , for to reisen up a rent That longeth to my lordés duětee . A ! art thou than a baillif ? Ye , quod he . ( He dorstè not , for veray filth and shame , Say that he was a Sompnour , for the name ) . De ...
... ( quod he ) is min entent To riden , for to reisen up a rent That longeth to my lordés duětee . A ! art thou than a baillif ? Ye , quod he . ( He dorstè not , for veray filth and shame , Say that he was a Sompnour , for the name ) . De ...
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Leigh Hunt. Brother , quod he , fer in the north contrée , * Wher as I hope sometime I shall thee see . Or we depart I shall thee so wel wisse , That of min hous ne shalt thou never misse . Now brother , quod this Sompnour , I you pray ...
Leigh Hunt. Brother , quod he , fer in the north contrée , * Wher as I hope sometime I shall thee see . Or we depart I shall thee so wel wisse , That of min hous ne shalt thou never misse . Now brother , quod this Sompnour , I you pray ...
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... Quod this Sompnour . Right in this menè while This yeman gan a litel for to smile . Brother , quod he , wolt thou that I thee tell ? I am a fend , my dwelling is in hell ; And here I ride about my pourchasing To wote wher men wol give ...
... Quod this Sompnour . Right in this menè while This yeman gan a litel for to smile . Brother , quod he , wolt thou that I thee tell ? I am a fend , my dwelling is in hell ; And here I ride about my pourchasing To wote wher men wol give ...
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admirable Apho Aphobus Aristophanes Bacurius Ben Jonson Bessus brother call'd captain character Charles Lamb Chaucer Colax comedy Corb Corv courtepy courtier cried Dean Deil devil Don Quixote doth duke exquisite eyes fairy Falstaff fancy fear fool Friar Gent gentleman give grace hand hath head hear heart heaven hire honor horse Hudibras Igno Jaques Kate Kath KATHARINA kick'd king Lady laugh laughter lord Macaronic madam master mind mock-heroic Molière Mosca never night Panurge PETRUCHIO poem poet poetry poor pray prose quod quoth Rabelais rhymes satire servant Shakspeare Sompnour soul spleen summoner sure sylph Tartuffe tell thee ther things thou thought twas twelf Uncle Toby unto valiant verse Volp VOLPONE whan wife Wit and Humor word write
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Seite 251 - 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, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and...
Seite 218 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise...
Seite 181 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Seite 90 - And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy 'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Seite 89 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Seite 208 - The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the floating tides : While melting music steals upon the sky, And soften'd sounds along the waters die : •Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay.
Seite 193 - And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty: Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Heywood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology...
Seite 4 - 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...
Seite 160 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Seite 211 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.