Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay and Critical CommentsNorwood Editions, 1846 - 332 Seiten |
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... Talk , in a sense of Dissi- mulation ) or Saying one thing and Meaning another , is a mode of speech generally adopted for pur- poses of satire , but may be made the vehicle of the most exquisite compliment . On the other hand , Chaucer ...
... Talk , in a sense of Dissi- mulation ) or Saying one thing and Meaning another , is a mode of speech generally adopted for pur- poses of satire , but may be made the vehicle of the most exquisite compliment . On the other hand , Chaucer ...
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... talk of horse and armour . Orleans . You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world . Dauphin . What a long night is this ! I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns . Ha , ha ! He bounds from the ...
... talk of horse and armour . Orleans . You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world . Dauphin . What a long night is this ! I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns . Ha , ha ! He bounds from the ...
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... talk , Tittle tattle , tittle tattle : Like their pattens when they walk ; Pittle pattle , pittle pattle . Dr. Darwin . This is very ungallant of the Doctor : but he was a ladies ' man not of the most sentimental order ; and such are ...
... talk , Tittle tattle , tittle tattle : Like their pattens when they walk ; Pittle pattle , pittle pattle . Dr. Darwin . This is very ungallant of the Doctor : but he was a ladies ' man not of the most sentimental order ; and such are ...
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... talk of dressing , more than they . I'll please the Maids of Honour , if I can : Without black velvet breeches WHAT IS MAN ? Bramston's Man of Taste . Bramston was a facetious clergyman and minor poet , whose verses are to be found in ...
... talk of dressing , more than they . I'll please the Maids of Honour , if I can : Without black velvet breeches WHAT IS MAN ? Bramston's Man of Taste . Bramston was a facetious clergyman and minor poet , whose verses are to be found in ...
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... talk to me of his jades and baggages ! If those are the sort of terms you keep , I must send you back to your parents . Mus . ( aside ) God grant it ! Macaronic poetry ( Maccaronea ) originated , like most literary 56 AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY.
... talk to me of his jades and baggages ! If those are the sort of terms you keep , I must send you back to your parents . Mus . ( aside ) God grant it ! Macaronic poetry ( Maccaronea ) originated , like most literary 56 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...