History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Том 2Hurst and Blackett, 1878 - 712 страници |
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... amusing , by comparing what was most insig- nificant with with something of unsurpassable grandeur . The desire to gain influence from the prescriptive forms of great writings was the first incentive to parody . We cannot sup- pose that ...
... amusing , by comparing what was most insig- nificant with with something of unsurpassable grandeur . The desire to gain influence from the prescriptive forms of great writings was the first incentive to parody . We cannot sup- pose that ...
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... amusing account of the gang . Among them is Harry Paddington- " a poor , petty - larceny rascal , without the least genius ; that fellow , though he were to live these six months would never come to the gallows with any credit - and Tom ...
... amusing account of the gang . Among them is Harry Paddington- " a poor , petty - larceny rascal , without the least genius ; that fellow , though he were to live these six months would never come to the gallows with any credit - and Tom ...
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... amused by them , owing to their excessive improbability . Such ingenuity seems misplaced , we see more absurdity than talent in representing a sheep as talking to a wolf . To us fables now present , not what is strange and difficult of ...
... amused by them , owing to their excessive improbability . Such ingenuity seems misplaced , we see more absurdity than talent in representing a sheep as talking to a wolf . To us fables now present , not what is strange and difficult of ...
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... amusing picture of the over - dressed maid of the period . " The apparel , " he says , " of our women- servants should be next regulated , that we may know the mistress from the maid . I remember I was once put very much to the blush ...
... amusing picture of the over - dressed maid of the period . " The apparel , " he says , " of our women- servants should be next regulated , that we may know the mistress from the maid . I remember I was once put very much to the blush ...
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... amusing at the present day . The Scandalous Club was a kind of Court of Morals , before whom all kinds of offences were brought for judgment , and it also settled questions on love affairs in a very judicious manner . Some of the advice ...
... amusing at the present day . The Scandalous Club was a kind of Court of Morals , before whom all kinds of offences were brought for judgment , and it also settled questions on love affairs in a very judicious manner . Some of the advice ...
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Страница 135 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
Страница 13 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Страница 135 - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound. And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends. Went mad, and bit the man.
Страница 145 - Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeRoad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, ' Knives and Scissors to grind O ! ' ' Tell me, knife-grinder, how came you to grind knives ? Did some rich man tyrannically use you ? Was it the squire ? or parson of the parish ? Or the attorney ? ' Was it the squire, for killing of his game ? or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit ? ' (Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine ?),...
Страница 12 - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair: The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
Страница 19 - I'ma wretch, indeed— methinks I see him already in the cart, sweeter and more lovely than the nosegay in his hand! —I hear the crowd extolling his resolution and intrepidity !— What volleys of sighs are sent from the windows of Holborn, that so comely a youth should be brought to disgrace ! — I see him at the tree ! The whole circle are in tears!
Страница 12 - twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after seven, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heaven.
Страница 22 - These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much, Forgetting that themselves are all derived From the most scoundrel race that ever lived; A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones, Who ransacked kingdoms and dispeopled towns, The Pict and painted Briton, treacherous Scot, By hunger, theft, and rapine hither brought; Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes, Whose red-haired offspring everywhere remains, Who, joined with Norman-French, compound the breed From...
Страница 103 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.