 Wit was originally a general name for all the intellectual powers, meaning the faculty which kens, perceives, knows, understands ; it was gradually narrowed in its signification to express merely the resemblance between ideas ; and lastly, to note that...  The North American Review - Stran 151uredili: - 1850Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 144 strani
...two lawyers in his whole dominions, and that he intended to hang one of them as soon as he got home. Wit was originally a general name for all the intellectual...wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Humour originally meant moisture, a signification it metaphorically retains, for it is the very juice... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 strani
...taken from one of the Lectures on Subjects connected with Literature and Life : — WIT AND HUMOUR. ' Wit was originally a general name for all the intellectual...between ideas ; and lastly, to note that resemblance 1 Whipple's papers in The North American Review include the following : — The Old English Dramatists—... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 strani
..."To Adam, Paradise was a home ; to the. good among his descendants, Home is a Paradise." — HARE. 6. "Wit was originally a general name for all the intellectual...wide apart by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Humour originally meant moisture, a signification it metaphorically retains, for it is the very juice... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 strani
...Pope, Swift, Dryden, Ben Jonson, or Voltaire." Wit was originally, as an American essayist observes, a general name for all the intellectual powers, meaning...faculty which kens, perceives, knows, understands ; and was gradually narrowed in its signification to express merely the resemblance between ideas;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 strani
...Pope, Swift, Dryden, Ben Jonson, or Voltaire." Wit was originally, as an American essayist observes, a general name for all the intellectual powers, meaning...faculty which kens, perceives, knows, understands ; and was gradually narrowed in its signification to express merely the resemblance between ideas ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 strani
...easily routed by a charge of horse, and which are apt to fire iuto each others' faces. WIT AND HUMOR. "Wit was originally a general name for all the intellectual...lastly, to note that resemblance when it occasioned lndierous surprise. It marrics ideas lying wide apart, by a sndden jerk of the understanding. Humor... | |
 | 1867 - 616 strani
...from the mysterious corners of our " Saddle-Bags," we may occasionally draw a trifle of either — " Wit was originally a general name for all the intellectual...marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the undemanding. Humor originally meant moisture, a signification it metaphorically retains, for it is... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1875 - 348 strani
...walls of Paradise! T, B. Read. LXVL—WIT AND HUMOR. 'TTTIT was originally a general name for all the W intellectual powers, meaning the faculty which kens,...occasioned ludicrous surprise. It marries ideas lying widely apart by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Humor originally meant moisture, a signification... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 strani
...WHIFFLE (1819-1886) The great secret of a good style is to have proper words in proper places. Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Humor is the very juice of the mind, oozing from the brain, and enriching and fertilizing wherever it falls.... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 strani
...wit and art, what power you have, when joined ! 5855 Vanbrurjh : The Provoked Wife. Act ii. Sc. 2. It marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. 5856 EP Whipple : Literature and Life. Wit and Humor. Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime,... | |
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