Wit and Humor: Selected from the English Poets, with an Illustrative Essay, and Critical CommentsWiley and Putnam, 1846 - 261 pages |
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... Aristophanes , by means of it , confounded Socrates with the Sophists , and prepared the way for his murder . Its greatest type in the English language is Hudi- bras , which reversed the process of Aristophanes , and rescued good sense ...
... Aristophanes , by means of it , confounded Socrates with the Sophists , and prepared the way for his murder . Its greatest type in the English language is Hudi- bras , which reversed the process of Aristophanes , and rescued good sense ...
Page 90
... Aristophanes . People whose will and folly are generally in such equal portions as those of shrews , may be frightened and kept down by wills equal to their own , accompa nied with greater understandings ; but they are not to be tamed ...
... Aristophanes . People whose will and folly are generally in such equal portions as those of shrews , may be frightened and kept down by wills equal to their own , accompa nied with greater understandings ; but they are not to be tamed ...
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... Aristophanes , Ariosto , Berni , Voltaire , Shakspeare , Cervantes . The greater the wit , for the most part , the healthier the understanding , because it is tho- roughly wisest and well - balanced . Some physical irregularity * A ...
... Aristophanes , Ariosto , Berni , Voltaire , Shakspeare , Cervantes . The greater the wit , for the most part , the healthier the understanding , because it is tho- roughly wisest and well - balanced . Some physical irregularity * A ...
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... Aristophanes , or the animal spirits of Rabelais ; he was not so incessantly witty as Butler ; nor did he possess the delicacy of Addison , or the good nature of Steele or Fielding , or the pathos and depth of Sterne ; but his wit was ...
... Aristophanes , or the animal spirits of Rabelais ; he was not so incessantly witty as Butler ; nor did he possess the delicacy of Addison , or the good nature of Steele or Fielding , or the pathos and depth of Sterne ; but his wit was ...
Page 233
... Aristophanes , The rogue too vicious and too -pròphane is . I went in vain to look for Eupolis Down in the Strand , just where the New Pole is ; * * The fact may be true , but the rhyme cost me some trouble . - AUTHOR . For I can tell ...
... Aristophanes , The rogue too vicious and too -pròphane is . I went in vain to look for Eupolis Down in the Strand , just where the New Pole is ; * * The fact may be true , but the rhyme cost me some trouble . - AUTHOR . For I can tell ...
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