 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST. IF by worst be only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit....less comic for being dragged in sometimes by the head arid shoulders. What though it limp a little, or prove defective in one leg — all the better. A pun... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...PUNS АПЕ THE BEST. IF by worst be only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit....feather to tickle the intellect. It is an antic which docs not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into the presence, and does not show the less comic... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...WORST PUNS ABE THE BEST. IF by worst be only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit....is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but cornea bounding into the presence, and does not show the less comic for being dragged in sometimes... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1871 - 484 pages
...WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST. IF by worst be only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit....; not a feather to tickle the intellect. It is an VOL. in. 28 antic which does not stand upon manners, but comea bounding into the presence, and does... | |
 | John Timbs - 1874 - 360 pages
...abridged : — " If by the worst he only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit....is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but conies bounding into the presence, and does not show the less comic for being dragged in sometimes... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 pages
...Magazine, January, 1826.) IF by worst be only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit....bounding into the presence, and does not show the less coming for being dragged in sometimes by the head and shoulders. What though it limp a little, or prove... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 378 pages
...puns are the best." If by worst he only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. " A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol lot off at the ear ; not a feather to tickle the intellect. It is an antic which does not stand upon... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 pages
...Magazine, January, 1826.) IF by worst be only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we r.gree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit....bounding into the presence, and does not show the less coming for being dragged in sometimes by the head and shoulders. What though it limp a little, or prove... | |
 | 1886 - 152 pages
...satisfy the coarser demands of the more vulgar portion of his patrons. Charles Lamb describes a pun as " a pistol let off at the ear, not a feather to tickle the intellect." Shakespeare contrived thus to take by storm the ears of those whose intellects were not susceptible... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pages
...meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which hmit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle tho intellect. It is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into th» presence,... | |
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It is a pistol let off at the ear ; not a feather to tickle the intellect. It is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into the presence, and does not show the less comic for being dragged in sometimes by the head arid shoulders. 
