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Pagina 50
... humour . It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour , than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit , by negatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them after ...
... humour . It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour , than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit , by negatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them after ...
Pagina 193
... humour of the French has not a little infected their tongue , which might be shown by many instances ; as the genius of the Italians , which is so much addicted to music and ceremony , has moulded all their words and phrases to those ...
... humour of the French has not a little infected their tongue , which might be shown by many instances ; as the genius of the Italians , which is so much addicted to music and ceremony , has moulded all their words and phrases to those ...
Pagina 327
... humour more ridi- culous than in a father , who has been ear- nestly solicitous to have an account how his son has passed his leisure hours ; if it be in a way thoroughly insignificant , there cannot be a greater joy than an inquirer ...
... humour more ridi- culous than in a father , who has been ear- nestly solicitous to have an account how his son has passed his leisure hours ; if it be in a way thoroughly insignificant , there cannot be a greater joy than an inquirer ...
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