The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... , and the condition of the people who lie in it , are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy , or rather thoughtfulness , that is not disagreeable . I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the 9 JOSEPH ADDISON ...
... , and the condition of the people who lie in it , are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy , or rather thoughtfulness , that is not disagreeable . I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the 9 JOSEPH ADDISON ...
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... kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them , but that they were born , and that they died . They put me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems , who have sounding names ...
... kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them , but that they were born , and that they died . They put me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems , who have sounding names ...
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... kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages , as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed which the soil ...
... kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages , as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed which the soil ...
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... kind of sanction to this piece of false wit , that all the writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided the several kinds of it into hard names , that are reck- oned among the figures of speech , and ...
... kind of sanction to this piece of false wit , that all the writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided the several kinds of it into hard names , that are reck- oned among the figures of speech , and ...
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... into a race of punsters ; at least , a man may be very excusable for any apprehensions of this kind , that has seen acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a 14 ADDISON.
... into a race of punsters ; at least , a man may be very excusable for any apprehensions of this kind , that has seen acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a 14 ADDISON.
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