| William Hazlitt - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...There was L — himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in...fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes a question with a play upon words.... | |
| 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...There was Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in...fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words.... | |
| 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 664
...— " There was Lamb himself, the delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun and the best remark in...out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things, in half-a-dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...pins and needles " — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described, to stammer out the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-coloured suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...he is " the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of...fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Home Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were Dr. Parr and... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...he is "the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of...fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Home Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were Dr. Parr and... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...he is " the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of...fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Home Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were Dr. Parr and... | |
| 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...him, "almost always bordered upon wisdom, his serious conversation, like his serious writings, was the best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-a-dozen sentences ; his jests scalded like tears, and he probed a question with a play upon words."... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...pins and needles" — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described, to stammer out the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-colored suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...pins and needles" — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described, to stammer out the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-colored suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips... | |
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