Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, 1. kötetAppleton., 1867 |
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4. oldal
... seat ; There saw the throes that rock'd my lab'ring brain , And lick'd and claw'd me to myself again . Then , friends , indulge my grief and let me mourn , My cat is gone , ah ! never to return ! Now in my study , all the tedious night ...
... seat ; There saw the throes that rock'd my lab'ring brain , And lick'd and claw'd me to myself again . Then , friends , indulge my grief and let me mourn , My cat is gone , ah ! never to return ! Now in my study , all the tedious night ...
13. oldal
... seat ; With like devotion all the choir Paraded round our awful ' Squire ; In front the martial music comes , Of horns and fiddles , fifes and drums , With jingling sound of carriage - bells , And treble creak of rusted wheels . Behind ...
... seat ; With like devotion all the choir Paraded round our awful ' Squire ; In front the martial music comes , Of horns and fiddles , fifes and drums , With jingling sound of carriage - bells , And treble creak of rusted wheels . Behind ...
19. oldal
... numbers chime , And , as they roll in substance , roll in rhyme , No more thy awkward , unpoetic name Should shun the muse or prejudice thy fame ; · Assume their seats , the solid mass attack ; THE HASTY PUDDING . 19.
... numbers chime , And , as they roll in substance , roll in rhyme , No more thy awkward , unpoetic name Should shun the muse or prejudice thy fame ; · Assume their seats , the solid mass attack ; THE HASTY PUDDING . 19.
21. oldal
... seat of Cancer gains ; But when his fiercest fires emblaze the land , Then start the juices , then the roots expand ; Then , like a column of Corinthian mould , The stalk struts upward and the leaves unfold ; The bushy branches all the ...
... seat of Cancer gains ; But when his fiercest fires emblaze the land , Then start the juices , then the roots expand ; Then , like a column of Corinthian mould , The stalk struts upward and the leaves unfold ; The bushy branches all the ...
22. oldal
... seats as at the corn before . I leave them to their feast . There still belong More copious matters to my faithful song . AN ATTEMPT AT LARCENY . - When the late Judge Howell , of Rhode Island , was at the bar , Mr. Bur- gess , to play ...
... seats as at the corn before . I leave them to their feast . There still belong More copious matters to my faithful song . AN ATTEMPT AT LARCENY . - When the late Judge Howell , of Rhode Island , was at the bar , Mr. Bur- gess , to play ...
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ix. oldal - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
vii. oldal - ... 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 retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical...
70. oldal - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
ix. oldal - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
viii. oldal - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.
22. oldal - Alternate ranged, extend in circling rows, Assume their seats, the solid mass attack ; The dry husks rustle and the corn-cobs crack ; The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips in silence round.
5. oldal - Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle, dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy. And there we see a thousand men, As rich as 'Squire David; And what they wasted every day, I wish it could be saved.
46. oldal - Boots, and all the other vagabond race that infest the purlieus of an inn; but the bustle was transient; the coach again whirled on its way; and boy and dog, and hostler and Boots, all slunk back again to their holes; the street again became silent, and the rain continued to rain on. In fact, there was no hope of its clearing up; the barometer pointed to rainy weather; mine...
45. oldal - ... rising from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; an unhappy cur, chained to a doghouse hard by, uttered something every now and then, between a bark and a yelp; a drab of a...
13. oldal - No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law...