Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay and Critical CommentsNorwood Editions, 1846 - 332 Seiten |
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... sometimes admirably used , for purposes of banter , by wits who are guilty of the very fault when they become grave . Thus Peter Pindar , who is as dull in his serious poetry as he is laughable in his comic : : - Once at our house ...
... sometimes admirably used , for purposes of banter , by wits who are guilty of the very fault when they become grave . Thus Peter Pindar , who is as dull in his serious poetry as he is laughable in his comic : : - Once at our house ...
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... sometimes is the only perfect exhibi- tion of the nonsense it ridicules . Such , for instance , is the gibberish so zealously poured forth by the counsel for plaintiff and defendant in the court of law ( Book the Second ) , and the no ...
... sometimes is the only perfect exhibi- tion of the nonsense it ridicules . Such , for instance , is the gibberish so zealously poured forth by the counsel for plaintiff and defendant in the court of law ( Book the Second ) , and the no ...
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... sometimes pure burlesque , and some- times a species of complimental irony , hovering be- tween burlesque and mock - heroic . Dr. King's Art of Cookery , quoted in the foregoing section , is a parody on Horace's Art of Poetry , and ...
... sometimes pure burlesque , and some- times a species of complimental irony , hovering be- tween burlesque and mock - heroic . Dr. King's Art of Cookery , quoted in the foregoing section , is a parody on Horace's Art of Poetry , and ...
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... Sometimes it is so close , yet amusing , as to become almost identical ; in which case it betrays the existence of something too much like itself in the original ; that is to say , uninten- tionally subject to a derisive echo . Mr ...
... Sometimes it is so close , yet amusing , as to become almost identical ; in which case it betrays the existence of something too much like itself in the original ; that is to say , uninten- tionally subject to a derisive echo . Mr ...
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... sometimes not only indecorous but revolting . It is a thousand pities that the unbounded sympathy of the poet with everything that interested his fellow - creatures did not know , in this instance , where to stop . Yet we must be ...
... sometimes not only indecorous but revolting . It is a thousand pities that the unbounded sympathy of the poet with everything that interested his fellow - creatures did not know , in this instance , where to stop . Yet we must be ...
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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...