Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay and Critical CommentsNorwood Editions, 1846 - 332 Seiten |
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... passage on the subject , in which indeed much is said , and a great many definite things glanced at , but which still includes a modest confession of incompleteness . " It may be demanded , " says he , " what the thing we speak of is ...
... passage on the subject , in which indeed much is said , and a great many definite things glanced at , but which still includes a modest confession of incompleteness . " It may be demanded , " says he , " what the thing we speak of is ...
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... passage of Locke , he heightens the properties pointed out by the philosopher , by adding to them the requirements of Delight and Surprise ; and com- pletes them , or at least intimates their completion , by the demand of Dissimilitude ...
... passage of Locke , he heightens the properties pointed out by the philosopher , by adding to them the requirements of Delight and Surprise ; and com- pletes them , or at least intimates their completion , by the demand of Dissimilitude ...
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... 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 allude to the author of Don Juan . I will usher in ...
... 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 allude to the author of Don Juan . I will usher in ...
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... passage admissible into good company . What , too , could be more easily retained in like manner , than the account of the gigantic despot Gargantua , who 66 ate six pilgrims in a salad ? " of the Abbey of the Thelemites , or people who ...
... passage admissible into good company . What , too , could be more easily retained in like manner , than the account of the gigantic despot Gargantua , who 66 ate six pilgrims in a salad ? " of the Abbey of the Thelemites , or people who ...
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... variorum translation of Rabelais ; or rather , the concluding passage is added , and quoted from memory , out of the one I first met with ; which I take to be the best . ing . But the rest is good , both as 32 AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY.
... variorum translation of Rabelais ; or rather , the concluding passage is added , and quoted from memory , out of the one I first met with ; which I take to be the best . ing . But the rest is good , both as 32 AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY.
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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...