Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay and Critical CommentsNorwood Editions, 1846 - 332 Seiten |
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... the follies of 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 . 7.
... the follies of 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 . 7.
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... bring as many ideas together as can pleasantly assemble . But a single one is nothing . Two ideas are as necessary to Wit , as couples are to marriages ; and the union is happy in proportion to the agreeableness of the offspring . So ...
... bring as many ideas together as can pleasantly assemble . But a single one is nothing . Two ideas are as necessary to Wit , as couples are to marriages ; and the union is happy in proportion to the agreeableness of the offspring . So ...
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... bring the two streams gradually together , till no- thing be wanting to their united fulness . It must be remembered at the same time ( to drop this meta- phor ) , that the mode , as before observed , is of no consequence , compared ...
... bring the two streams gradually together , till no- thing be wanting to their united fulness . It must be remembered at the same time ( to drop this meta- phor ) , that the mode , as before observed , is of no consequence , compared ...
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... bring the Two Ends of a Thought or Circumstance together ; -as in one of Addison's papers above mentioned , where he is speaking of a whole Book of Psalms that was minutely written in the face and hair of a portrait of Charles the First ...
... bring the Two Ends of a Thought or Circumstance together ; -as in one of Addison's papers above mentioned , where he is speaking of a whole Book of Psalms that was minutely written in the face and hair of a portrait of Charles the First ...
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... brings them out of the words before him , as they naturally present themselves in the flow of compo- sition . He is resolved that nothing shall baulk him ; and does nothing . Swift , however , often wrote forced verses as a pastime ...
... brings them out of the words before him , as they naturally present themselves in the flow of compo- sition . He is resolved that nothing shall baulk him ; and does nothing . Swift , however , often wrote forced verses as a pastime ...
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Seite 341 - 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,...
Seite 268 - Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Seite 284 - The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams 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. All but the sylph — with careful thoughts opprest, Th' impending woe sat heavy on his breast.
Seite 287 - Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A...
Seite 263 - Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Seite 5 - 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 288 - T' inclose the lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine clos'd, A wretched sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, • And screams of horror rend th
Seite 343 - 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?
Seite 265 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Seite 301 - 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...