Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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Sivu 33
... expressing different ideas , and countenancing , as it were , by a fatality of language , the mischievous insinuation which the person who has the wit to take advantage of it wishes to convey . So when the disaffected French wits ...
... expressing different ideas , and countenancing , as it were , by a fatality of language , the mischievous insinuation which the person who has the wit to take advantage of it wishes to convey . So when the disaffected French wits ...
Sivu 35
... expression , sometimes points the sense . Mr Grattan's wit or eloquence ( I don't know by what name to call it ) would be nothing with- out this accompaniment . Speaking of some ministers whom he did not like , he said , " Their only ...
... expression , sometimes points the sense . Mr Grattan's wit or eloquence ( I don't know by what name to call it ) would be nothing with- out this accompaniment . Speaking of some ministers whom he did not like , he said , " Their only ...
Sivu 38
... expression . But this is by no means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait - laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose serious wit is more that of things , as opposed ...
... expression . But this is by no means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait - laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose serious wit is more that of things , as opposed ...
Sivu 47
... 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 a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection ...
... 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 a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection ...
Sivu 48
... expression doth af- fect and amuse the fancy , showing in it some wonder , and breathing some delight thereto . It raiseth admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of ...
... expression doth af- fect and amuse the fancy , showing in it some wonder , and breathing some delight thereto . It raiseth admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of ...
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