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We will not propose to define the nature of humour , nor to discuss , metaphysically or philosophically , the difference betwixt wit and humour ; but as we shall have to use the terms with some distinction of meaning , we may indicate ...
We will not propose to define the nature of humour , nor to discuss , metaphysically or philosophically , the difference betwixt wit and humour ; but as we shall have to use the terms with some distinction of meaning , we may indicate ...
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Curiously enough , we find cited as a sample of American humour a description of a man who had fallen in love and been wrecked on the coral reefs , namely , of a woman's red lips . And in a quaint old English love - poem , probably of ...
Curiously enough , we find cited as a sample of American humour a description of a man who had fallen in love and been wrecked on the coral reefs , namely , of a woman's red lips . And in a quaint old English love - poem , probably of ...
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In this we see humour at play with sentiment , and should like to have had more such interiors pictured with the same vividness and delightful ease . In the other poems we meet with humour -Yankee humour - in a working mood .
In this we see humour at play with sentiment , and should like to have had more such interiors pictured with the same vividness and delightful ease . In the other poems we meet with humour -Yankee humour - in a working mood .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 122 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1867 |
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