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" I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears the test, you may pronounce... "
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Page 126
1841
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The Spectator: ...

English essays - 1739 - 334 pages
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The Spectator ...

English essays - 1803 - 454 pages
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Select British Classics, Volume 37

English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...promote vigour of body and ease of mind. ' The Pun is defined by one who seems to be no wellwisher to it, to be " a conceit arising from the use of two words...that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense." Now if this be the essence of the Pun, how great must we allow the dignity of it to be, when • we...
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NL orphan barcodes on file at ReCAP

1804 - 676 pages
...punning.. Having pursued the history of a pun from its origiwal to its downfall, I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to Iry a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears...
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The Guardian, Volume 1

1804 - 490 pages
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The Spectator; in Miniature: Being a Collection of the Principal ..., Volume 2

1808 - 384 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...punning. Having pursued the history of a pun, from its original to its downfal, I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way, therefore, to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language : if it...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...punning. Having pursued the history of a pun, from its original to its downfal, I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way, therefore, to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language : if it...
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The Spy, a periodical paper of literary amusement and instruction ..., Issue 1

1810 - 430 pages
...a word of the same sound which has been used by another person ; or, as Addison defines it, " it is a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in sound, but differ in sense." • This has justly been termed the lowest species of wit, (if wit it...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...punning. Having pursued the history of a pun, from its original to its downfal, I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears...
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