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"Papa's wit is running low," said Lady Mary: "the poor gentleman is repeating himself he sang that on the field of battle, when he was told the Highlanders had cut his left wing to pieces with their claymores." A pull by the hair was the repartee to this sally.
In their quality as humorists, the outlines of both these gentlemen have become rather broken and indistinct. "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear that hears it." Decanted wit inevitably loses its bouquet. A clever repartee belongs to the precious moment in which it is broached, and is of a vintage that does not usually bear transportation. Dr.
In camp he could conduct himself as he pleased; but this was not permissible in the society of his equals in rank; for this reason, and because those faculties of quick remark and repartee, which distinguished them, had been denied to him, he felt uneasy and out of his element when he mixed with them, and he would hardly have accepted Ameni's invitation, if it had not so greatly flattered his vanity.
For he proved a very rational, honorable and eligible young Prince: modest, honest, with abundance of sense and spirit; kind too and good, hot temper well kept, temper hot not harsh; quietly holds his own in all circles; good discourse in him, too, and sharp repartee if requisite, though he stammered somewhat in speaking. Submissive Wilhelmina feels that one might easily have had a worse husband.
Audley Egerton, who chilled or awed the ease out of most people. "Nay, my dear Audley, forgive me. But your eminent men are all men of one idea, and that not a diverting one, politics! politics! politics! The storm in the saucer." "But what is your life, Harley? the saucer without the storm?" "Do you know, that's very well said, Audley? I did not think you had so much liveliness of repartee.
The quick mind supplies the apt repartee, while the dullard thinks of the appropriate reply next morning if at all. The disadvantage of the latter mind is that it does not work easily, the danger of the former is that it may work too easily and get out of control.
You'll grow horns yet, old muley cow, says I, punching Perry in the ribs, 'if you trot around on the trail of vice with your Uncle Buck. "'I'll have to be home by seven, you know, says Perry again. "'Oh, yes, says I, winking to myself, for I knew the kind of seven o'clocks Perry Rountree got back by after he once got to passing repartee with the bartenders.
The whole English school of wits with Douglas Jerrold, Hood, Sheridan, and Sidney Smith, indulged in repartee. They were PARASITIC wits. And so with the Irish, except that an Irishman is generally so ridiculously absurd in his replies as to only excite ridicule. "Artemus Ward" made you laugh and love him too. The wit of "Artemus Ward" and "Josh Billings" is distinctively American.
She knew how to compliment without flattering; her cordiality warmed like wine, and her ready wit, repartee, and ability to thaw all social ice and lead conversation along any line, were accomplishments which perhaps have never been equaled. The women who "entertain" often only depress; they are so glowing that everybody else feels himself punk.
Beethoven's love of a joke was such that it appears in the title to one of his works, the opus 129. It is the most harmless amiable anger." Beethoven was ready in repartee, and full of resources, with a wit that was spontaneous and equal to any emergency. One New-year's day, as he and Schindler were sitting down to dinner, a card was brought in Beethoven took the card and wrote on the back of it
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