Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay, and Critical CommentsSmith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 357 pagini |
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Pagina 32
... original with remarks on the fault of incon- gruity : - Ingenious Lister , were a picture drawn With Cynthia's face , but with a neck like brawn , With wings of turkey , and with feet of calf , Though drawn by Kneller , it would make ...
... original with remarks on the fault of incon- gruity : - Ingenious Lister , were a picture drawn With Cynthia's face , but with a neck like brawn , With wings of turkey , and with feet of calf , Though drawn by Kneller , it would make ...
Pagina 33
... original ; that is to say , uninten- tionally subject to a derisive echo . Mr. Crabbe , an acute though not impartial observer of common life , a versifier of singular facility , and a genuine wit , had nevertheless a style so mixed up ...
... original ; that is to say , uninten- tionally subject to a derisive echo . Mr. Crabbe , an acute though not impartial observer of common life , a versifier of singular facility , and a genuine wit , had nevertheless a style so mixed up ...
Pagina 48
... original and the version ) , but it is not the worse for that . Indeed the passage is much better in the English than in the Latin . Veni Banbury , O profanum , Ubi vidi Puritanum Felem facientem furem , Quia Sabbatho stravit murem . To ...
... original and the version ) , but it is not the worse for that . Indeed the passage is much better in the English than in the Latin . Veni Banbury , O profanum , Ubi vidi Puritanum Felem facientem furem , Quia Sabbatho stravit murem . To ...
Pagina 73
... , provided his ideas are not absolutely misrepresented . At all events , the reader may go uninterruptedly , if he pleases , through the version , and then turn to the original E for the finer traits , and for a music equally.
... , provided his ideas are not absolutely misrepresented . At all events , the reader may go uninterruptedly , if he pleases , through the version , and then turn to the original E for the finer traits , and for a music equally.
Pagina 119
... original : — " Madam , the meaning of this Latin is , That woman is to man his sovereign bliss . " The conventional phrase " sovereign bliss , " is no- thing compared with the grave repetition and enforcement of the insult in Chaucer ...
... original : — " Madam , the meaning of this Latin is , That woman is to man his sovereign bliss . " The conventional phrase " sovereign bliss , " is no- thing compared with the grave repetition and enforcement of the insult in Chaucer ...
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Pagina 151 - A woman moved, is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it.
Pagina 339 - 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, and cut blocks...
Pagina 248 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Pagina 137 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...
Pagina 283 - Planets through the boundless Sky. Some less refin'd, beneath the Moon's pale Light Pursue the Stars that shoot athwart the Night ; Or suck the Mists in grosser Air below, Or dip their Pinions in the painted Bow, Or brew fierce Tempests on the wintry Main, Or o'er the Glebe distil the kindly Rain.
Pagina 80 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages), Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
Pagina 286 - The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 341 - 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?
Pagina 299 - 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...