The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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... words , or some irrelevant conceit , as in puns , riddles , alliteration , & c . The jest , in all such cases , lies in the sort of mock - identity , or nominal resemblance , established by the intervention of the same words expressing ...
... words , or some irrelevant conceit , as in puns , riddles , alliteration , & c . The jest , in all such cases , lies in the sort of mock - identity , or nominal resemblance , established by the intervention of the same words expressing ...
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... words and names which have the effect of wit by sounding big , and meaning nothing - full of sound and fury , signifying nothing . ' But of the artifices of this author's burlesque style I shall have occasion to speak hereafter . - It ...
... words and names which have the effect of wit by sounding big , and meaning nothing - full of sound and fury , signifying nothing . ' But of the artifices of this author's burlesque style I shall have occasion to speak hereafter . - It ...
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... words of Sir T. Brown ( which will serve as a fine specimen of his manner ) , " But the quincunxes of Heaven ( the ... word in the Hydriotaphia about ' a thigh - bone , or a skull , or a bit of mouldered coffin , or a tomb - stone ...
... words of Sir T. Brown ( which will serve as a fine specimen of his manner ) , " But the quincunxes of Heaven ( the ... word in the Hydriotaphia about ' a thigh - bone , or a skull , or a bit of mouldered coffin , or a tomb - stone ...
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