Capitolo 54
applause; to that I have to also add a small epigram he/she called the
"The Prayer" of witches that you/he/she is fallen in toward when one was read
turns back or direct, only omitting that he/she cursed a way, and
blessed the other. When one sees there is indeed this way
painstakers among our British intelligence that can say that in which you/he/she can end?
If we have to whip each other, allows him to be with the virile hits of the intelligence
and satire: for me they are of the opinion of the old philosopher that, if me
it has to suffer one or the other, I am able rather you/he/she should be from
the hand of a lion that from the clog of a donkey. I don't speak this
out of some spirit of party. There is a crying dulness on both
sides. I have seen Conservative acrostics and Liberal you anagrammatize, and it doesn't do
you quarrel with both them because they is Liberal or Conservatories, but
because they is anagrams and acrostics.
But to return to punning. Having undertaken the history of a pun, from
his/her original to his/her fall, I am able here defines him/it to be a conceitedness
rising from the use of two words that I/you/they agree in the sound, but
differs in the sense. The only way, therefore to feel a piece of the intelligence
it is tradurrlo in a different language. If it bears the test,
You can declare him/it true; but if it fades away in the experiment, You
you/he/she can conclude to have been him/it a pun. In short, one can say of a pun,
as the farmer described his/her nightingale, that is "vox et
praeterea nihil"--"a sound and nothing but a sound." On the
contrary, one can represent the true intelligence from the description that
Aristaenetus makes of an excellent woman: - "When she is dressed her it is
beautiful: when she is naked she is beautiful; " or, as Mercerus
you/he/she has translated more emphatically him, Induitur, busty east:
exuitur, east of form of ipsa.
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Scribendi recte to know east et principium, et fons.
HOR., Poet of Ars. 309.
Judgment of sound is the earth to write well.--ROSCOMMON.