History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, 2. kötetHurst and Blackett, 1878 - 712 oldal |
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... story or conversation . Hence in the old caricatures the speeches of the characters were written in balloons over their heads , and in the modern an explanation is added underneath . For want of such assistance we lose the greater part ...
... story or conversation . Hence in the old caricatures the speeches of the characters were written in balloons over their heads , and in the modern an explanation is added underneath . For want of such assistance we lose the greater part ...
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... stories to the Squire , Up to her Godly garret after seven , There starve and pray - for that's the way to Heaven . " He was seldom able to bring a humorous . sketch to the close without something a little objectionable . Often inclined ...
... stories to the Squire , Up to her Godly garret after seven , There starve and pray - for that's the way to Heaven . " He was seldom able to bring a humorous . sketch to the close without something a little objectionable . Often inclined ...
32. oldal
... gibbet , which , worn about the neck , would make but a scurvy figure . " Most of the stories show the democratic tendencies of the writer , for instance- Advice to Husbands . 33 " A poor man's cow 32 History of English Humour .
... gibbet , which , worn about the neck , would make but a scurvy figure . " Most of the stories show the democratic tendencies of the writer , for instance- Advice to Husbands . 33 " A poor man's cow 32 History of English Humour .
33. oldal
... story of his wife ; how ill - natured , how sullen , how unkind . she was , and that in short she made his life very uncomfortable . The Society asked him several questions about her , whether she was " Unfaithful ? No. " A thief ? No ...
... story of his wife ; how ill - natured , how sullen , how unkind . she was , and that in short she made his life very uncomfortable . The Society asked him several questions about her , whether she was " Unfaithful ? No. " A thief ? No ...
35. oldal
... stories we have heard of lovers and their mistresses are fictions and mere banter . " The case of these ladies is indeed to be pitied , and the Society have been further informed that the backwardness or fewness of the men in that town ...
... stories we have heard of lovers and their mistresses are fictions and mere banter . " The case of these ladies is indeed to be pitied , and the Society have been further informed that the backwardness or fewness of the men in that town ...
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9. oldal - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
46. oldal - He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court ; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
131. oldal - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
297. oldal - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
131. oldal - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound. And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends. Went mad, and bit the man.
8. oldal - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair: The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
141. oldal - Story? God bless you! I have none to tell, sir: Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers, This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. Constables came up for to take me into Custody; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish Stocks for a vagrant.
45. oldal - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities? what wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
141. oldal - Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast ; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches. Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, "Knives and Scissors to grind O...
107. oldal - O'er the bounds of thirty-five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five: For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five: He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five.