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... hand , is a conscious and deliberate exercise of the mental faculties in the direction of distinguishing the ludicrous connection between diverse things . The one is a case of discovery and of conjunction ; the other of sympathy and of ...
... hand , is a conscious and deliberate exercise of the mental faculties in the direction of distinguishing the ludicrous connection between diverse things . The one is a case of discovery and of conjunction ; the other of sympathy and of ...
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... hand , it will enable us to note the gradual deepening and broadening of the channels of the national work in wit and humour - to mark , how , from the compara- tively meagre beginnings in the fourteenth century , have proceeded the ...
... hand , it will enable us to note the gradual deepening and broadening of the channels of the national work in wit and humour - to mark , how , from the compara- tively meagre beginnings in the fourteenth century , have proceeded the ...
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... hand , was emphatically a poet of the court , and wrote that the cultivated class might read . He wrote , too , in a very different strain from Langland . It is easy to see that life for Langland was very different from what it was for ...
... hand , was emphatically a poet of the court , and wrote that the cultivated class might read . He wrote , too , in a very different strain from Langland . It is easy to see that life for Langland was very different from what it was for ...
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... hand of sympathy , not of reproach . The poet laughs as he puts his fingers on the various weak places of his fellow - creatures . He ex- tenuates nothing , but he puts nothing down in malice , or , if in malice , it is still with a ...
... hand of sympathy , not of reproach . The poet laughs as he puts his fingers on the various weak places of his fellow - creatures . He ex- tenuates nothing , but he puts nothing down in malice , or , if in malice , it is still with a ...
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... hand That he must pill his land , To make his coffers rich ; But he layeth all in the ditch , And useth such abusion , That in the conclusion All cometh to confusion . Perceive the cause why , To tell the truth plainly , He is so ...
... hand That he must pill his land , To make his coffers rich ; But he layeth all in the ditch , And useth such abusion , That in the conclusion All cometh to confusion . Perceive the cause why , To tell the truth plainly , He is so ...
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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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