laughter-inspiring

Updated: May 17, 2025

There is, however, we are tolerably assured, a certain class of critics who venture to lament that this laughter-inspiring muse should have descended from the sunny Parnassus of its own vernacular to the meads below, where disport the unlearned and uninspired, the mere kids and lambs of its celestial audience: a generous absurdity, at which the very Devil of Delphos might have demurred.

Various - The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 : Devoted To Literature And National Policy