 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 478 sidor
...chapter, becaufe it is undoubtedly connected with ridicule. Congreve defines humour to be "afin" gular and unavoidable manner of doing or " faying any thing,...natural to " one man only, by which his fpeech and ac." tions are diftinguifhed from thofe of other " men." Were this definition juft, a majeftic and... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 534 sidor
...becaufe it is connected with ridicule. Congreve defines humour to be " a fingular and unavoida" ble manner of doing or faying any thing, peculiar " and...actions are diftinguifhed from thofe of other " men." Were this definition juft, a majeftic and commanding air, which is a fingular property, is humour;... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1784 - 524 sidor
...for my prefumption, in giving my opinion on this difficult fubjecl:, I will fubjoin Mr. Congreve's opinion of humour, in his letter to Dennis, which...and natural to one man only, by which his fpeech and aftions are diflinguifhed from thofe of other men.' And this is certainly agreeable to Ben Jonfon's... | |
 | 1799 - 516 sidor
...another. This humour," continues he, " is a lingular and unavoidable manner of fpeaking and acting, peculiar and natural to one man only, by which his fpeech and actions are diftinguiihed from thofe of other men. The relation of our humour with ourfelves, and our aftions,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 548 sidor
...becaufe it is connected with ridicule. Congreve defines humour to be " a fingular and unavoid" able manner of doing or faying any thing, " peculiar and...actions are diftinguifhed " from thofe of other men." Were this definition juft, a majcftic and commanding air, which is a fingular property, is humour;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 sidor
...with ridicule. Congreve defines humour to be " a singular and unavoidable man" ner of doing or saying any thing, peculiar and " natural to one man only, by which his speech " and actions are distinguished from those of other " men." Were this definition just, a majestic... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823 - 418 sidor
...with ridicule. Congreve defines humour to be " a singular and unavoidable manner of doing or saying " any thing, peculiar and natural to one man only, by " which his speech and actions are distinguished from " those of other men." Were this definition just, a majestic... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 sidor
...length he ventures to say, " I take it to be a singular and unavoidable manner of doing and .saying any thing, peculiar and natural to one man only, by which his speech and actions are distinguished from those of other men." He speaks more plainly, when he points... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 sidor
...length he ventures to say, " I take it to be a singular and unavoidable manner of doing and saying any thing, peculiar and natural to one man only, by which his speech and actions are distinguished from those of other men." He speaks more plainly, when he points... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 sidor
...of •y seeking them. Su-ift. Wit, I consider as a siugular and unavoidable manon of doing or saying any thing peculiar and natural to one man only, by which his speech and actions are Msyssisted from those of other men. Congreve. Let us revolve that roll with... | |
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opinion of humour, in his letter to Dennis, which he modeftly fays ferves him for one: ' A fmgular and unavoidable manner of doing or faying any thing peculiar and natural to one man only, by which his fpeech and actions are diftinguifhed from thofe of... 
