Selections from the Tatler, the Spectator and Their SuccessorsWalter James Graham Nelson, 1928 - 422 pages Collection of essays includes selected complete numbers of the Tatler and the Spectator, along with single essays from later publications. Known or "reasonably conjectured" authorship indicated. Several of the selected works are by Addison or Steele. |
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Page 174
... humour , what wild irregular fancies , what unnatural distortions of thought , do we meet with ? If they speak nonsense , they believe they are talking humour ; and when they have drawn together a scheme of absurd , inconsistent ideas ...
... humour , what wild irregular fancies , what unnatural distortions of thought , do we meet with ? If they speak nonsense , they believe they are talking humour ; and when they have drawn together a scheme of absurd , inconsistent ideas ...
Page 175
... humour . It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour , than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit , by negatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them after ...
... humour . It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour , than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit , by negatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them after ...
Page 176
... HUMOUR is always laugh- ing , whilst everybody about him looks serious . I shall only add , if he has not in him a ... HUMOUR , and , at the same time , place under it the genealogy of TRUE HUMOUR , that the reader may at one view behold ...
... HUMOUR is always laugh- ing , whilst everybody about him looks serious . I shall only add , if he has not in him a ... HUMOUR , and , at the same time , place under it the genealogy of TRUE HUMOUR , that the reader may at one view behold ...
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CoffeeHouse | 9 |
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