Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay, and Critical CommentsSmith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 357 Seiten |
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... volume cannot fail to amuse ; and in order to make amends for that absence of prose - wit and humour which its limitation to verse rendered at once unavoidable and provoking ( con- sidering how much some of the best of the writers ...
... volume cannot fail to amuse ; and in order to make amends for that absence of prose - wit and humour which its limitation to verse rendered at once unavoidable and provoking ( con- sidering how much some of the best of the writers ...
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... volume , should the public care to have it . At the same time , he unexpectedly found himself unable to extract a great deal of what is otherwise . excellent , on account of the freedom of speech in which almost all the wits have ...
... volume , should the public care to have it . At the same time , he unexpectedly found himself unable to extract a great deal of what is otherwise . excellent , on account of the freedom of speech in which almost all the wits have ...
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... volume next year with the third of the series announced in the preface to Imagination and Fancy ; namely , a selec- tion , edited in the like manner , from the Narrative and Dramatic Poets , under the title of Action and Passion . The ...
... volume next year with the third of the series announced in the preface to Imagination and Fancy ; namely , a selec- tion , edited in the like manner , from the Narrative and Dramatic Poets , under the title of Action and Passion . The ...
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... volume apart from the series , and on quite another plan ; its object being to produce such a Selection from Favourite Authors , both in prose and verse , as a lover of books , young or old , might like to find lying in the parlour of ...
... volume apart from the series , and on quite another plan ; its object being to produce such a Selection from Favourite Authors , both in prose and verse , as a lover of books , young or old , might like to find lying in the parlour of ...
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... volume . The work of Rabelais is a wild but profound bur- lesque of some of the worst abuses in government and religion , and has had a corresponding effect on the feelings , or unconscious reasonings , of the world . This must be its ...
... volume . The work of Rabelais is a wild but profound bur- lesque of some of the worst abuses in government and religion , and has had a corresponding effect on the feelings , or unconscious reasonings , of the world . This must be its ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
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 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?
Seite 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...