Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent and Company, 1900 - 304 oldal |
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... fancy . Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argu- ment , consists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has nothing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with the nature of the things , which are forced ...
... fancy . Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argu- ment , consists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has nothing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with the nature of the things , which are forced ...
36. oldal
... fancy and windings of language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by ) , which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or ex- pression doth affect ...
... fancy and windings of language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by ) , which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or ex- pression doth affect ...
52. oldal
... fancy , but of fashion , who have a tribe of forerunners and followers , who catch certain diseases of the mind on purpose to com- municate the infection , and are screened in their preposterous eccentricities by their own conceit and ...
... fancy , but of fashion , who have a tribe of forerunners and followers , who catch certain diseases of the mind on purpose to com- municate the infection , and are screened in their preposterous eccentricities by their own conceit and ...
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