Capitolo 51
It was beaten with fist, instead of a baton (the Song me, II),
and--
There was an ancient philosopher
Who had read on Alexander Ross
(Divides me., Song 2, 1),
he/she quoted more frequently that the most excellent pieces of the intelligence in the whole one
poem.
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Not equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis
Turgescat of Page, challenges smoke of fit of pondus.
PERS., Saturday. v. 19.
'Tis not indeed my talent to hock
In tall trifles, or to inflate my page
With wind and noise.
DRYDEN.
There is not some kind of false intelligence from which you/he/she has been recommended so the
you practise of every century what consists in a tinkling of words,
and it is inclusive under the general name of punning. It is indeed
impossible to kill a weed that the ground has a natural disposition
to produce. The seeds of punning are in the minds of all the men, and
although they can be subjugated by reason, reflection and the good sense,
they will be very proper to shoot above in the greatest genius that is not
broken and cultivated by the rules of art. The imitation is natural to
us, and when it doesn't raise the mind to poetry, while painting, music,
or the other arts nobler, it often breaks out in puns and games of words.
Aristotle, in the eleventh chapter of his/her book of rhetoric,
it describes two or three son-in-laws of puns that he calls paragrams,
among the beauties of good writing, and it produces examples of them
out of some of the greatest authors in the Greek language. Cicero has
sprinkled a lot of his/her jobs with puns, and, in his/her book where him
it places down the rules of oratory, the abundance of quotas of mottos as
pieces of the intelligence that also, on examination, you try puns of arrant. But
the age in which the pun bloomed was mainly in the kingdom of King
James the first one. That learned monarch him it was a tolerable
punster, and it made very little bishops or Councillors Privati that they didn't have
some calculate or other was signalled by a body body or a
riddle. It was, therefore, in this age that the pun has appeared