The Witty and Humorous of the English Poets: With Specimens Arranged in PeriodsLow, 1880 - 335 psl. |
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... Verse , rather , is the term which ought in this instance to be used ; and verse , because here we shall consider just that portion of our humorous and witty literature which has found rhythmical expression . That wit and humour are ...
... Verse , rather , is the term which ought in this instance to be used ; and verse , because here we shall consider just that portion of our humorous and witty literature which has found rhythmical expression . That wit and humour are ...
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... verse of several centuries . It will be seen that , though the forms in which they appear differ according to individual idiosyncrasies and the intellectual fashions of each epoch , true wit and true humour are essentially the same from ...
... verse of several centuries . It will be seen that , though the forms in which they appear differ according to individual idiosyncrasies and the intellectual fashions of each epoch , true wit and true humour are essentially the same from ...
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... verse before his time , but because it is in the pages of our first great poet that English humour first be- comes intelligible , without the aid of elaborate glossaries and notes . It may be taken for granted that the vigorous , coarse ...
... verse before his time , but because it is in the pages of our first great poet that English humour first be- comes intelligible , without the aid of elaborate glossaries and notes . It may be taken for granted that the vigorous , coarse ...
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... verses : To London once my steps I bent , Where truth in no wise should be faint ; To Westminster - ward I forthwith went , To a man of law to make complaint ; I said , ' For Mary's love , that holy saint ! Pity the poor that would ...
... verses : To London once my steps I bent , Where truth in no wise should be faint ; To Westminster - ward I forthwith went , To a man of law to make complaint ; I said , ' For Mary's love , that holy saint ! Pity the poor that would ...
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... verse . His most effective poem is perhaps Why come ye not to Court ? from which the following lines on Wolsey are extracted : Once yet again Of you I would frayne [ ask ] - Why come ye not to court ? To which court ? To the king's ...
... verse . His most effective poem is perhaps Why come ye not to Court ? from which the following lines on Wolsey are extracted : Once yet again Of you I would frayne [ ask ] - Why come ye not to court ? To which court ? To the king's ...
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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 familiar famous fancy fool George Gascoigne give grace hand heart 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 racter 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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