The Witty and Humorous of the English Poets: With Specimens Arranged in PeriodsLow, 1880 - 335 psl. |
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... talk or composition , but they are per- fectly distinct in essence and in characteristics . Humour may be said to exist already in the very nature of men and of circumstances , and has only to be brought out by those who are capable of ...
... talk or composition , but they are per- fectly distinct in essence and in characteristics . Humour may be said to exist already in the very nature of men and of circumstances , and has only to be brought out by those who are capable of ...
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... talk Of loving friend , delights . Distressed , forlorn , Amidst the horrors of the tedious night , Darkling I sigh , and feed with dismal thoughts My anxious mind ; or sometimes mournful verse Indite , and sing of groves and myrtle ...
... talk Of loving friend , delights . Distressed , forlorn , Amidst the horrors of the tedious night , Darkling I sigh , and feed with dismal thoughts My anxious mind ; or sometimes mournful verse Indite , and sing of groves and myrtle ...
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... talk to fellows , And full of indignation frets That women should be such coquettes . Iris , for scandal most ... Talks half a day in praise of silence ; And Sylvia , full of inward guilt , Calls Amoret an arrant jilt . Similar in tone ...
... talk to fellows , And full of indignation frets That women should be such coquettes . Iris , for scandal most ... Talks half a day in praise of silence ; And Sylvia , full of inward guilt , Calls Amoret an arrant jilt . Similar in tone ...
121 psl.
... talks extremely well ; On any subject let him dwell , His tropes and figures will content ye ; He should possess , to all degrees , The art of talk : he practises Full fourteen hours in four - and - twenty . Lastly , take the famous ...
... talks extremely well ; On any subject let him dwell , His tropes and figures will content ye ; He should possess , to all degrees , The art of talk : he practises Full fourteen hours in four - and - twenty . Lastly , take the famous ...
129 psl.
... talk of country people , and for whom not even Bauldry has a very great attraction . We refrain from quoting from the poem , because its most humorous passages are exactly those which would be least comprehensible by the general reader ...
... talk of country people , and for whom not even Bauldry has a very great attraction . We refrain from quoting from the poem , because its most humorous passages are exactly those which would be least comprehensible by the general reader ...
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Absalom and Achitophel admirable amusing Ballads Bards black crow Born burlesque Byron called character charming Chaucer clever comedy comic contemporaries courtier Cowper dance Devil died doth dramatists Dryden Dunciad English epigram example eyes fair famous fancy fool George Gascoigne give grace hand heart Henry Luttrell Hood Horace Horace Smith humourist John King lady laughed Leigh Hunt lines live look Lord Lord Lytton lover maid merry Mortimer Collins Muse ne'er never o'er once parody perhaps persiflage pieces play poem poet poetry poor Pope prose quoted R. H. Barham rhyme Rolliad satire satirist sigh sing smile song specimen style sweet tell thee There's things thou thought tone true Twas vein verse W. S. Gilbert whilst wit and humour witty and humorous writer written wrote young
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