Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, Τόμος 1Appleton., 1867 |
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Σελίδα 6
... things I'll tell which late befell In Philadelphia city . " Twas early day , as poets say , Just when the sun was rising , A soldier stood on a log of wood , And saw a thing surprising . As in a maze he stood to gaze , The truth can't ...
... things I'll tell which late befell In Philadelphia city . " Twas early day , as poets say , Just when the sun was rising , A soldier stood on a log of wood , And saw a thing surprising . As in a maze he stood to gaze , The truth can't ...
Σελίδα 14
... thing with other eyes , And all goes wrong in church and state , Seen through perspective of the grate : So now M'FINGAL's second - sight Beheld all things in gloomiest light ; His visual nerves , well purg'd with tar , Saw all the ...
... thing with other eyes , And all goes wrong in church and state , Seen through perspective of the grate : So now M'FINGAL's second - sight Beheld all things in gloomiest light ; His visual nerves , well purg'd with tar , Saw all the ...
Σελίδα 18
... thing gaudy . Besides , she had an high - met- tled chaplain who was constantly at her elbow , and said prayers ... things they sup- posed they should want , and leaving behind them a note on the compter , t to tell their master where ...
... thing gaudy . Besides , she had an high - met- tled chaplain who was constantly at her elbow , and said prayers ... things they sup- posed they should want , and leaving behind them a note on the compter , t to tell their master where ...
Σελίδα 25
... thing to have an arm broke , or a splinter struck off the nose , or an eye shot out ; but as in that case the ball mostly passes through the brain , and the man being dead at any rate , the loss of sight is not felt . " As the captain ...
... thing to have an arm broke , or a splinter struck off the nose , or an eye shot out ; but as in that case the ball mostly passes through the brain , and the man being dead at any rate , the loss of sight is not felt . " As the captain ...
Σελίδα 27
... thing for men to speculate , nowadays . If you will not , another will . A hundred dollars might as well be in your pocket as another man's . I will give you that for the use of your servant for a week or two , and say no more about it ...
... thing for men to speculate , nowadays . If you will not , another will . A hundred dollars might as well be in your pocket as another man's . I will give you that for the use of your servant for a week or two , and say no more about it ...
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Σελίδα ix - ... 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.
Σελίδα vii - ... 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...
Σελίδα 70 - 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.
Σελίδα ix - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Σελίδα viii - 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.
Σελίδα 22 - 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.
Σελίδα 5 - 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.
Σελίδα 46 - 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...
Σελίδα 45 - ... 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...
Σελίδα 13 - No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law...