The Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic Selections from the Writings of the Most Eminent Humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England ...William Evans Burton D. Appleton, 1859 |
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viii. oldal
... side . " Voltaire's enumeration of the shapes of Wit bears such a verisimilitude to the catalogue of the divine as to give authority to a reasonable supposition that the philosopher of Ferney had benefited by a perusal of Barrow's works ...
... side . " Voltaire's enumeration of the shapes of Wit bears such a verisimilitude to the catalogue of the divine as to give authority to a reasonable supposition that the philosopher of Ferney had benefited by a perusal of Barrow's works ...
13. oldal
... side their various currents ; His flowing wig , as next the brim , First met and drank the sable stream ; Adown his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave ; * An imitation of legal forms was universally practised by ...
... side their various currents ; His flowing wig , as next the brim , First met and drank the sable stream ; Adown his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave ; * An imitation of legal forms was universally practised by ...
14. oldal
... side always right , and that stark naught ; He foams with censure ; with applause he raves , - A dupe to rumors , and a tool of knaves ; He'll want no type his weakness to proclaim , While such a thing as foolscap has a name . The hasty ...
... side always right , and that stark naught ; He foams with censure ; with applause he raves , - A dupe to rumors , and a tool of knaves ; He'll want no type his weakness to proclaim , While such a thing as foolscap has a name . The hasty ...
21. oldal
... side ; Not all the plate , how famed soe'er it be , Can please my palate like a bowl of thee . Some talk of Hoe ... sides A belly soft the pulpy apple hides ; The yellow bread , whose face like amber glows , And all of Indian that the ...
... side ; Not all the plate , how famed soe'er it be , Can please my palate like a bowl of thee . Some talk of Hoe ... sides A belly soft the pulpy apple hides ; The yellow bread , whose face like amber glows , And all of Indian that the ...
29. oldal
... side ; Did what he could to pull their Lion down , Clipp'd at his beard , and twitch'd his sacred hide , Mimick'd his roarings , trod upon his toes , Pelted young whelps , and tweak'd the old one's nose . Rous'd by his page , at church ...
... side ; Did what he could to pull their Lion down , Clipp'd at his beard , and twitch'd his sacred hide , Mimick'd his roarings , trod upon his toes , Pelted young whelps , and tweak'd the old one's nose . Rous'd by his page , at church ...
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