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Having jumped into his petticoats, pinned a large dowde under his chin, and put a high-crowned hat on his head, he made a figure so comical that even Hogarth’s humour can scarcely parallel; yet our hero thought himself of something else to render his disguise more impenetrable: he therefore borrowed a little hump-backed child of a tinker, and two more of some others of his community.
Rather comical that would be, my boy, for a prisoner to arrest his visitor, and keep him in prison with him; but how would you manage to give him up to the law?" Hilary bit his lip.
"He is my brother," repeated Favorinus, "and as for his eyes, I have seen them flash by Hercules! like the radiant sun, or merry twinkling stars! And his mouth! I know him well! He is my brother, and I will wager that while he condescended it is too comical condescended to dispute with you with you, there was a sly smile at each corner of his mouth so look now like this he smiled."
Being by nature punctual, he made it an absolute point of honour never to keep an appointment; and, as a lover of domestic peace, he was for ever working his way into scrapes and rows. He was a comical object, with his limp yellow hair brushed ferociously on end, and his mild yellow eyes scowling defiance at mankind.
But my master, his boy and I came to see you elephants, and other circus animals. Only I never knew what an elephant was like before." "Well, now you know," said Tum Tum, "so you won't bark at, or bite, the next one you see." "Indeed I shall not," said Don. "I have to bark at Squinty, the comical pig, once in a while, when he gets out of the pen, and once I took hold of his ear in my teeth."
As for angels, it is not comical enough, to put them in anti-masques; and anything that is hideous, as devils, giants, is on the other side as unfit. But chiefly, let the music of them be recreative, and with some strange changes. Some sweet odors suddenly coming forth, without any drops falling, are, in such a company as there is steam and heat, things of great pleasure and refreshment.
As was to be expected of that social soul, the character of Falstaff gave Goldsmith more consolation than the most studied efforts of wisdom: "I here behold," he continues, "an agreeable old fellow forgetting age, and showing me the way to be young at sixty-five. Sure I am well able to be as merry, though not so comical, as he.
And this idea of Catherine "sticking" appeared to have a comical side, and to offer a prospect of entertainment. He determined, as he said to himself, to see it out. It was for reasons connected with this determination that on the morrow he sought a few words of private conversation with Mrs. Penniman.
And so, standing stolidly facing the others, their high-pitched, nasal voices presently began: "My country 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing." "Well, if that ain't sarkism!" interjected Sonora between the lines of the hymn. "Land where our fathers died " "You bet they died hard!" cut in Trinidad, rolling his eyes upward in a comical imitation of the Indians.
It was comical to see those loads of cauliflower being driven past. Ireland was to fight for freedom with her stomach full of cauliflower.... There was a Proclamation of the Republic on a wall near by, and he hurried to read it. "What's the thing at the head of it?" a woman asked, gazing at the Gaelic inscription on top of the Proclamation. "That's Irish," the man beside her replied.