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... sense . But excess of animal spirits helps to account for it . Should health enough be spared him ( as change of air and scene has enabled him to hope ) , it is the Editor's in- tention to follow up this volume next year with the third ...
... sense . But excess of animal spirits helps to account for it . Should health enough be spared him ( as change of air and scene has enabled him to hope ) , it is the Editor's in- tention to follow up this volume next year with the third ...
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... sense , or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude . Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question ; in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; in ...
... sense , or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude . Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question ; in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; in ...
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... sense of triumph and " glory ; " and upon the prin- ciple here expressed , his opinion seems to be justifiable ; though I cannot think it entirely so on the scornful ground implied by him . * His limitation of the cause of laughter ...
... sense of triumph and " glory ; " and upon the prin- ciple here expressed , his opinion seems to be justifiable ; though I cannot think it entirely so on the scornful ground implied by him . * His limitation of the cause of laughter ...
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... sense of too many other things to do so ; with too much thought , with too great a perfection even , or with pa- thos and sorrow . All extremes meet ; excess of laughter itself runs into tears , and mirth becomes heaviness . Mirth ...
... sense of too many other things to do so ; with too much thought , with too great a perfection even , or with pa- thos and sorrow . All extremes meet ; excess of laughter itself runs into tears , and mirth becomes heaviness . Mirth ...
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... and ludicrously impressed by a sense of the unmerited , noisy , and public danger , to which the innocent essayist was subjected in being taken before a magistrate . The case , I think , is the same with ON WIT AND HUMOR . 7.
... and ludicrously impressed by a sense of the unmerited , noisy , and public danger , to which the innocent essayist was subjected in being taken before a magistrate . The case , I think , is the same with ON WIT AND HUMOR . 7.
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Page 251 - 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, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and...
Page 218 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise...
Page 181 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 90 - And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy 'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 89 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 208 - The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the floating tides : While melting music steals upon the sky, And soften'd sounds along the waters die : •Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay.
Page 193 - And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty: Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Heywood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology...
Page 4 - 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...
Page 160 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 211 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.