Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay and Critical CommentsNorwood Editions, 1846 - 332 頁 |
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... turn themselves to all things , or turn all things to themselves . It also procureth delight , by gratifying curi- osity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ( as monsters , not for their beauty but their rarity — as juggling ...
... turn themselves to all things , or turn all things to themselves . It also procureth delight , by gratifying curi- osity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ( as monsters , not for their beauty but their rarity — as juggling ...
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... turns the help into a compliment , by implying our participation in the process . It does not follow that everything witty or humorous excites laughter . It may be accompanied with a sense of too many other things to do so ; with too ...
... turns the help into a compliment , by implying our participation in the process . It does not follow that everything witty or humorous excites laughter . It may be accompanied with a sense of too many other things to do so ; with too ...
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... turns it into a truth . Shine but on age , you melt its snow ; Again fires long extinguished glow , And charm'd by witchery of eyes , Blood , long congealèd , liquefies ! True miracle , and fairly done , By heads which are ador'd while ...
... turns it into a truth . Shine but on age , you melt its snow ; Again fires long extinguished glow , And charm'd by witchery of eyes , Blood , long congealèd , liquefies ! True miracle , and fairly done , By heads which are ador'd while ...
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... turn to an apparently grave 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 ...
... turn to an apparently grave 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 ...
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... turns and winds a fiery " earwig . " The best mock- heroical epigram I am acquainted with is one to a similar purpose on an ant . I quote from memory : — High mounted on an ant , Nanus the tall Dared its whole fire , and got a dreadful ...
... turns and winds a fiery " earwig . " The best mock- heroical epigram I am acquainted with is one to a similar purpose on an ant . I quote from memory : — High mounted on an ant , Nanus the tall Dared its whole fire , and got a dreadful ...
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第 341 頁 - 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,...
第 268 頁 - Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
第 284 頁 - 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.
第 287 頁 - 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...
第 263 頁 - 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.
第 5 頁 - 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...
第 288 頁 - 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
第 343 頁 - 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?
第 265 頁 - 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.
第 301 頁 - 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...