Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... false refinements of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . - Swift . III . The southern wits are like cucumbers , which are com monly all good in their kind ; but at best are an insipid fruit while the ...
... false refinements of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . - Swift . III . The southern wits are like cucumbers , which are com monly all good in their kind ; but at best are an insipid fruit while the ...
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... false wit chiefly consists in the re- semblance and congruity sometimes of single letters , as in anagrams , chronograms , lipograms , and acrostics : sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles . and some- times of whole sentences or ...
... false wit chiefly consists in the re- semblance and congruity sometimes of single letters , as in anagrams , chronograms , lipograms , and acrostics : sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles . and some- times of whole sentences or ...
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... false wit which has been so recom- mended by the practice of all ages , as that which con- sists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed , which the soil has ...
... false wit which has been so recom- mended by the practice of all ages , as that which con- sists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed , which the soil has ...
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... false medium ; for if a groom serve a gentleman in his chamber , that gentleman a lord , and that lord a prince ; the groom , the gentleman , and the lord , are as much servants one as the other ; the circumstantial dif- ference of the ...
... false medium ; for if a groom serve a gentleman in his chamber , that gentleman a lord , and that lord a prince ; the groom , the gentleman , and the lord , are as much servants one as the other ; the circumstantial dif- ference of the ...
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... false glosses have been put upon it by men of bad heads or bad hearts -it is at the bottom a complication of cowardice , and wickedness , and weakness ; -is one of the fatalest mis- takes desperation can hurry a man into . — Sterne ...
... false glosses have been put upon it by men of bad heads or bad hearts -it is at the bottom a complication of cowardice , and wickedness , and weakness ; -is one of the fatalest mis- takes desperation can hurry a man into . — Sterne ...
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