The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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... Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and fancy .
... Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and fancy .
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... humour , making it out as if they really led a lazy , laborious life ; but there was here neither allusion or metaphor . Again , that master - stroke in Hudibras is " sterling wit and profound satire , where speaking of certain VOL . VI ...
... humour , making it out as if they really led a lazy , laborious life ; but there was here neither allusion or metaphor . Again , that master - stroke in Hudibras is " sterling wit and profound satire , where speaking of certain VOL . VI ...
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... humour ; but I think he was himself aware of his infirmity , and has ( not improbably ) alluded to it in the following speech of Crites in Cynthia's Revels . ' Oh , how despised and base a thing is man , If he not strive to erect his ...
... humour ; but I think he was himself aware of his infirmity , and has ( not improbably ) alluded to it in the following speech of Crites in Cynthia's Revels . ' Oh , how despised and base a thing is man , If he not strive to erect his ...
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