Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay and Critical CommentsNorwood Editions, 1846 - 332 Seiten |
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... True miracle , and fairly done , By heads which are ador'd while on . 2nd , The Metaphor , which is but another form of the Simile , or , as Addison has defined it , " A Simile in a Word ; " that is to say , an Identification instead of ...
... True miracle , and fairly done , By heads which are ador'd while on . 2nd , The Metaphor , which is but another form of the Simile , or , as Addison has defined it , " A Simile in a Word ; " that is to say , an Identification instead of ...
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... true . I would not answer for my own upon occasions of common formal solemnity , or even at “ a sermon , " if the preacher was very bad . But the same liability to sympathy with the extremest pre- sent emotion , which would have made ...
... true . I would not answer for my own upon occasions of common formal solemnity , or even at “ a sermon , " if the preacher was very bad . But the same liability to sympathy with the extremest pre- sent emotion , which would have made ...
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... true general impression of it : - Narcissa's nature , tolerably mild , To make a wash would HARDLY stew a child . Pope . Subtle and confounding contradiction of appear- ances Zara resembles Etna crown'd with snows ; Without she freezes ...
... true general impression of it : - Narcissa's nature , tolerably mild , To make a wash would HARDLY stew a child . Pope . Subtle and confounding contradiction of appear- ances Zara resembles Etna crown'd with snows ; Without she freezes ...
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... true Taste ; and whoso likes it not , Is blockhead , coxcomb , puppy , fool , and sot . A great prose wit , Arbuthnot ( who , by the way , left some interesting serious verses on the subject of Self - Knowledge , which are to be found ...
... true Taste ; and whoso likes it not , Is blockhead , coxcomb , puppy , fool , and sot . A great prose wit , Arbuthnot ( who , by the way , left some interesting serious verses on the subject of Self - Knowledge , which are to be found ...
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... true to the intention . It has all the mirth to itself , hard as you may try to laugh with it . There is just the same sort of difference between a flow of false wit and of true , as between buffo music like that of Mozart or Rossini ...
... true to the intention . It has all the mirth to itself , hard as you may try to laugh with it . There is just the same sort of difference between a flow of false wit and of true , as between buffo music like that of Mozart or Rossini ...
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animal spirits 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 Doctor doth duke exquisite extremes meet eyes fairy Falstaff fancy fear fool Friar Gent gentlemen give grace hath hear heart Heaven hire honour horse Hudibras Igno Jaques Kate Kath KATHARINA kick'd king Lady laugh laughter lord Macaronic madam master mind mock-heroic Molière Mosca nature never night Panurge passage PETRUCHIO poem poet poetry poor pray quod quoth Rabelais racter rhymes satire servant Shakspeare Sompnour soul spleen summoner sure Swift sylph Tartuffe tell thee ther things thou thought twelf Uncle Toby unto valiant verse Volp Volpone whan wife Wit and Humour word write
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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...