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" • HUDIBUAS has defined Nonsense ( as COWLET does Wit) by negatives. NONSENSE (says he) is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of Nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other... "
The Works of Joseph Addison: Dialogues on medals. Travels. Essay on Virgil's ... - Page 624
by Joseph Addison - 1853
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The Philistine, Volume 25

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - American literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...will want your dealer to put in a stock Jt Jt Jt & jt j« MARY ELIZABETH Syracuse, New York DON SENSE is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings that it is incapable of...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...affection fail. — Lloyd. Hudibras has defined nonsense, a» Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense save Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...will oft prevail, when honor and affection fafl. — Lloyd. Hndibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense says he, is that which is neither ti-ne nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are essential to it, give it such a...
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The Philistine, Volume 25

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - American literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...express paid. After trying them you will want your dealer to put in a stock Jt jt jt jt jt jt jl tj which is neither true nor false. These two * great properties of nonsense, which are essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings that it is incapable of...
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English-Telugu Dictionary

Charles Philip Brown - Foreign Language Study - 2005 - 1456 pages
...in No. 4 of the Whig Examiner) has dedned Kunttrue, fas Cowley docs wit) by negatives. Aon»CTiic, says he, is that which is neither true nor false....properties of nonsense : which are always essential to it, gire it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings that it is incapable of being either answered...
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