An Outline of Humor: Being a True Chronicle from Prehistoric Ages to the Twentieth CenturyCarolyn Wells G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923 - 782 psl. |
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... told the story of a burning house- " I saw a fellow up on the roof , " he related , " and I called to him , ' Jump , and I'll catch you in a blanket ! ' Well , I had to laugh , he jumped , —and I didn't have no blanket ! " Implied ...
... told the story of a burning house- " I saw a fellow up on the roof , " he related , " and I called to him , ' Jump , and I'll catch you in a blanket ! ' Well , I had to laugh , he jumped , —and I didn't have no blanket ! " Implied ...
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... told his mentality was similar to that of a bright little contemporary boy of five . This theory would give him the power of laughter at simple things and it seems only fair to assume that he possessed it . In the beginnings of humanity ...
... told his mentality was similar to that of a bright little contemporary boy of five . This theory would give him the power of laughter at simple things and it seems only fair to assume that he possessed it . In the beginnings of humanity ...
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... in solemn and dignified effects with no lightness or gayety implied . Yet we are told by Sir Gardner Wilkinson , the early Egyp- tian artists cannot always conceal their natural tendency to the 26 AN OUTLINE OF HUMOR.
... in solemn and dignified effects with no lightness or gayety implied . Yet we are told by Sir Gardner Wilkinson , the early Egyp- tian artists cannot always conceal their natural tendency to the 26 AN OUTLINE OF HUMOR.
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... , the very man whom he greatly hated and despised . Nay , we are told , that , by the irony of fate , Haman himself ended his life on the excep- tionally huge gallows which , while in a humorous turn 30 AN OUTLINE OF HUMOR.
... , the very man whom he greatly hated and despised . Nay , we are told , that , by the irony of fate , Haman himself ended his life on the excep- tionally huge gallows which , while in a humorous turn 30 AN OUTLINE OF HUMOR.
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... told that she must leave ' gleanings , ' the poor man's sheaf , and the ' corner . ' " When the harvest time came , she was informed that it was her duty to give the priest's share , consisting of the first and second ' tithes . ' She ...
... told that she must leave ' gleanings , ' the poor man's sheaf , and the ' corner . ' " When the harvest time came , she was informed that it was her duty to give the priest's share , consisting of the first and second ' tithes . ' She ...
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The World's Best Humor– Being a True Chronicle from Prehistoric Ages to the ... Carolyn Wells Trumpų ištraukų rodinys - 1933 |
The World's Best Humor– Being a True Chronicle from Prehistoric Ages to the ... Carolyn Wells Trumpų ištraukų rodinys - 1933 |
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292 psl. - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
372 psl. - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
370 psl. - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
491 psl. - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
382 psl. - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two.
373 psl. - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; 8.
305 psl. - Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.
278 psl. - Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter...
687 psl. - Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
306 psl. - Who, in their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending: And if they make reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but lust; Tell time it is but motion; Tell flesh it is but dust: And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.