Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay, and Critical CommentsSmith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 357 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... hope ) it is the Editor's intention to follow up this volume next year with the third of the series announced in the preface to Imagination and Fancy ; namely , a selec- tion , edited in the like manner , from the Narrative and Dramatic ...
... hope ) it is the Editor's intention to follow up this volume next year with the third of the series announced in the preface to Imagination and Fancy ; namely , a selec- tion , edited in the like manner , from the Narrative and Dramatic ...
Pagina 67
... hope go , but wisdom and success it- self ( for they are Don Quixote's descendants with- out his madness or hollow cheeks , and are possessed by anticipation of his island ) , Genial Contradictions of the Conventional , as exemplified ...
... hope go , but wisdom and success it- self ( for they are Don Quixote's descendants with- out his madness or hollow cheeks , and are possessed by anticipation of his island ) , Genial Contradictions of the Conventional , as exemplified ...
Pagina 84
... hope to stonden in his ladies grace . Embrouded was he , as it were a mede All full of freshě floures white and rede : Singing he was , or floyting all the day : He was as freshe as is the moneth of May : Short was his goune , with ...
... hope to stonden in his ladies grace . Embrouded was he , as it were a mede All full of freshě floures white and rede : Singing he was , or floyting all the day : He was as freshe as is the moneth of May : Short was his goune , with ...
Pagina 103
... hope sometime I shall thee see . Or we depart I shal thee so wel wisse , That of min hous ne shalt thou never misse . Now brother , quod this Sompnour , I you pray Teche me , while that we riden by the way , ( Sith that ye ben a baillif ...
... hope sometime I shall thee see . Or we depart I shal thee so wel wisse , That of min hous ne shalt thou never misse . Now brother , quod this Sompnour , I you pray Teche me , while that we riden by the way , ( Sith that ye ben a baillif ...
Pagina 118
... end to all this . Madame Partlet , as I hope to be saved , Heaven has shown me special favour in one respect ; for when I behold the beauty of your face , you are 1 Ye ben so scarlet red about your eyen , 118 CHAUCER .
... end to all this . Madame Partlet , as I hope to be saved , Heaven has shown me special favour in one respect ; for when I behold the beauty of your face , you are 1 Ye ben so scarlet red about your eyen , 118 CHAUCER .
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Pagina 315 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend* to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of -dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit: Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold,...
Pagina 270 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Pagina 258 - The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides ; While melting music steals upon the sky, And soften'd sounds along the waters die : Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay. All but the sylph — with careful thoughts opprest, Th' impending woe sat heavy on his breast.
Pagina 275 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Pagina 261 - Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A...
Pagina 242 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 317 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Pagina 5 - 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...
Pagina 317 - He cherish'd his friend, and he relish'da bumper ; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper. Perhaps you may ask if the man was a miser? I answer, no, no, for he always was wiser : Too courteous, perhaps, or obligingly flat?
Pagina 239 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.