Capitolo 52
with pomp and the dignity. You/he/she had been admitted first in happy
discourses and laughable compositions, but you/he/she was now delivered with
the great gravity from the pulpit, or pronounced in the most solemn
way to the suggestion-table. The greatest authors, in them more
serious jobs, frequent use and fact of puns. The sermons of Episcopalian
Andrews and the tragedies of Shakespeare, are full of them. The
sinner was punned in repentance from the first one; as in the second,
nothing is more usual than to see a hero crying and quibbling for a
dozen flanks together.
I have to add to these great authorities that seem to have given a
kind of sanction to this piece of the false intelligence that all the writers of
rhetoric has treated of punning with very great respect, and
divided the some son-in-laws of him in hard names that are calculated
among the way of saying, and recommended as ornaments in
dissertation. I remember a teacher of country of my knowledge
it told once me, that he had been in society with a gentleman that him
looked above for being the greatest paragrammatist among the moderns.
On investigation, I found my learned friend you/he/she had dined that day with Mr.
You stroll about, the famous punster; and desiring to give me for it of the account
of the conversation of the Mr. Swan, he told that he spoke in generally
the Paranomasia in that he has given to the Ploce sometimes, but that in
his/her humble opinion he polished the most greater part in the Antanaclasis.
I don't owe here it omits that a famous university of this earth was
previously a lot of it infested with puns; but if or not this was able
rises from the fenses and swamps in which it was situated, and what
now me it is exhausted I have to go away to the most skilled determination
naturalists.
After this short history of punning, one would wonder, as it owes
is banished out so entirely some learned world as it is to
present, especially from when you/he/she had found a place in the writings of
the kind and more ancient authors. To give account of this we owe