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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... seems to be a very tragical conclusion for " poor human nature ; " but the Doctor had probably been taking his usual potations over - night , and so put his waking thoughts into plaintive condition ; for had he reflected on that " art ...
... seems to be a very tragical conclusion for " poor human nature ; " but the Doctor had probably been taking his usual potations over - night , and so put his waking thoughts into plaintive condition ; for had he reflected on that " art ...
Pagina 7
... seems to be justifiable ; though I cannot think it entirely so on the scornful ground im- plied by him . * His limitation of the cause of laughter looks like a saturnine self - sufficiency . There are numerous occasions , undoubtedly ...
... seems to be justifiable ; though I cannot think it entirely so on the scornful ground im- plied by him . * His limitation of the cause of laughter looks like a saturnine self - sufficiency . There are numerous occasions , undoubtedly ...
Pagina 11
... seems to be rendered harmless by the charge of dumbness . Yet as extremes meet , and a Jesuit is always supposed to mean something different from what he pretends , a contrast of the greatest kind is first suggested between that crafty ...
... seems to be rendered harmless by the charge of dumbness . Yet as extremes meet , and a Jesuit is always supposed to mean something different from what he pretends , a contrast of the greatest kind is first suggested between that crafty ...
Pagina 28
... fit for . Native vivacity and suitable occupation conspire to make his existence perfect . Voltaire is a later instance . Thus there can be no doubt that the mirth of Rabe- lais was as real as it seems . Indeed it 28 AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY.
... fit for . Native vivacity and suitable occupation conspire to make his existence perfect . Voltaire is a later instance . Thus there can be no doubt that the mirth of Rabe- lais was as real as it seems . Indeed it 28 AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY.
Pagina 29
... seems . Indeed it could not otherwise have been so incessant . It is a pity somebody does not take up the wonderful transla- tion of him by Urquhart , and make a good single volume of it , fit for modern readers . It would in- clude all ...
... seems . Indeed it could not otherwise have been so incessant . It is a pity somebody does not take up the wonderful transla- tion of him by Urquhart , and make a good single volume of it , fit for modern readers . It would in- clude all ...
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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...