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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... pieces of wit , which also upon examination prove arrant puns . But the age in which the pun chiefly flourished , was ... piece of false wit , that all the writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided ...
... pieces of wit , which also upon examination prove arrant puns . But the age in which the pun chiefly flourished , was ... piece of false wit , that all the writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided ...
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... piece of wit , is to translate it into a different language . If it bears the test , you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment , you may conclude it to have been a pun . In short , one may say of a pun , as the ...
... piece of wit , is to translate it into a different language . If it bears the test , you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment , you may conclude it to have been a pun . In short , one may say of a pun , as the ...
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... pieces . 22 A tyrant never wants a plea . And they have little chance of resisting the injustice of the powerful whose only weapons are innocence and reason . THE LION AND THE MOUSE A LION was sleeping in his lair , when a Mouse , not ...
... pieces . 22 A tyrant never wants a plea . And they have little chance of resisting the injustice of the powerful whose only weapons are innocence and reason . THE LION AND THE MOUSE A LION was sleeping in his lair , when a Mouse , not ...
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... pieces , his thought vanishes , the world disappears from him like a dream at morn- ing . On what a spider thread is hung our individual existence ! Fragility , appearance , nothingness . If it were not for our powers of self ...
... pieces , his thought vanishes , the world disappears from him like a dream at morn- ing . On what a spider thread is hung our individual existence ! Fragility , appearance , nothingness . If it were not for our powers of self ...
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... piece of music . Then , by simply changing the key , we keep up the attraction and vary the song . 28th January , 1881. - A terrible night . For three or four hours I struggled against suffocation and looked death in the face . ... It ...
... piece of music . Then , by simply changing the key , we keep up the attraction and vary the song . 28th January , 1881. - A terrible night . For three or four hours I struggled against suffocation and looked death in the face . ... It ...
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