 Wit laughs at things ; Humor laughs with them. Wit lashes external appearances, or cunningly exaggerates single foibles into character ; Humor glides into the heart of its object, looks lovingly on the infirmities it detects, and represents the whole...  The North American Review - Stran 160uredili: - 1850Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1867 - 616 strani
...exaggerates single foibles into character ; Humor glides into the heart of its object, looks lovingly on the infirmities it detects, And represents the...darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies in your faces ; Humor is slow and shy, insinuating its fun into your heart Wit is negative, analytical, destructive... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 strani
...these sentences : thunder and lightning, and thunder and lightning, heavenquake and earth-quake. 2. Wit is abrupt, darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies...slow and shy, insinuating its fun into your heart. 3. An enigma is a dark saying, an obscure question, a riddle. 244. THE COLON. The Colon denotes a degree... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 strani
...reader is well acquainted with, Jerrold and Thackeray are wits, Goldsmith and Dickens humorists. " Wit is abrupt, darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies in your face; humour is slow, and insinuates its fun into your heart." If we accept these definitions, a man of talent... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 strani
...exaggerates single foibles into character ; Humor glides into the heart of its object, looks lovingly on the infirmities it detects, and represents the...Humor is creative. The couplets of Pope are witty ; tut Sancho Panza is a humorous creation. Wit, when earnest, has the earnestness of passion seeking... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1875 - 348 strani
...evil report' and good reportv; as deceivers' and yet true v ; as unknown' and yet well v known. 4. Wit is abrupt', darting', scornful', and tosses its analogies in your face'; humor is slow v and shy\ insinuating its fun into your heart\ 5. Sink' or swim\ live' or die\ survive' or perish\... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 330 strani
...exaggerates single foibles into character ; Humor glides into the heart of its objects, looks lovingly on the infirmities it detects, and represents the...Insinuating its fun into your heart. Wit is negative, analyt lad, destructive ; Humor is creative. — (W) AB In the hollow breast of Apennine, Beneath the... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1878 - 312 strani
...exaggerates single foibles into character ; humor glides into the heart of its object, looks lovingly on the infirmities it detects, and represents the...negative, analytical, destructive ; humor is creative. ........... (1) Playful freedom, of expression is a source of humor. It is exemplified in the following... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 260 strani
...ENGLISH GRAMMAR. thunder and lightning, and thunder and lightning, heavenquake and earth-quake. 2. Wit is abrupt, darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies in your face, Humor is slow aad shy, insinuating its fun into your heart. 3. An enigma is a dark saying, an obscure question, a... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 strani
...of their thought.' And: * Wit is abrupt, darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies in your fflce; Humor is slow and shy, insinuating its fun into your...heart. Wit is negative, analytical, destructive; Humor IB creative. The couplets of Pope are witty, but Sancho Panza is a humorous creation. Wit, when earnest,... | |
 | John Robertson (LL.D., of Upton Park sch.) - 1882 - 182 strani
...paradise. Wit exists by antipathy ; humour, by sympathy. Wit laughs at things ; humour laughs with them. Wit is abrupt, darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies in your face ; humour is slow and shy, insinuating its fun into your heart. Wit is negative, analytical, destructive... | |
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