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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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Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew - That they had nothing else to do ' - was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making it out as if they really led a lazy , laborious life ...
Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew - That they had nothing else to do ' - was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making it out as if they really led a lazy , laborious life ...
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I have been blamed for what I have said , more than once , in disparagement of Ben Jonson's comic 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 ...
I have been blamed for what I have said , more than once , in disparagement of Ben Jonson's comic 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 ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2009 |
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