Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 8, 2025
Bitter reflections were daily cast on his cowardice and perfidy. On one occasion Carnot rose to give an account of a victory, and so far forgot the gravity of his character as to indulge in the sort of oratory which Barère had affected on similar occasions. He was interrupted by cries of "No more Carmagnoles!" "No more of Barère's puns!"
He hated puns and verbal trickery of every kind, but he saw more quickly than any other man I have ever known the humorous side of any question or any incident, and he had a knack of making that humorous side perceptible to others which to my mind was absolutely unique.
The learned Bartholomew hardly seemed equal to his responsible position among those long-headed Dutch politicians. Philip Sidney the only blemish in whose character was an intolerable tendency to puns observed that "Doctor Clerk was of those clerks that are not always the wisest, and so my lord too late was finding him."
We find this hot wit, as distinct from the cold wit of the school of Pope, in the puns and buffooneries of Shakespeare. We find it lingering in Hudibras, and we do not find it again until we come to such strange and strong lines as these of Elizabeth Barrett in her poem on Napoleon: "Blood fell like dew beneath his sunrise sooth, But glittered dew-like in the covenanted And high-rayed light.
For a somewhat monotonous vein of sarcasm, a painful power of producing puns, and a dexterity in suggesting doubts of everything, were the main foundation of his intellectual reputation, and Miss Kitty found them hard to cope with. And it was a warm evening.
And, once more, listen to the historian. "The Puritans hated puns. The Bishops were notoriously addicted to them. The Lords Temporal carried them to the verge of license. Majesty itself must have its Royal quibble.
"Oh come, come," said Gatty, "that's too bad, how am I ever to get all the nonsense, that is in my head, out if I am only to talk English on Sundays." "My dear! you ought to have no nonsense in your head." "But there it is, Madame, and you will be very angry if I break the Sabbath, by making puns and guessing jokes all Sunday." "My dear Gertrude, your spirits carry you quite too far."
I never walk through the Mall at sunset without getting a new hint of effect." "I agree to the walk," said Greenleaf. "Let us take Charbon along with us." "He doesn't talk." "That's what I like him for; he thinks the more." "How is one to know it?" "Just look at him! talk your best, parade your poetry, your criticism, your epigrams, your puns, if you have any, and then look at him! By Jove!
Quite a crowd surrounded this clown, hoping to hear some witty speeches and puns; but he kept near the door, and remained silent. About half-past ten he quitted his post. M. and Mme. Fauvel, followed by their niece Madeleine, had just entered. A compact group immediately formed near the door.
And there is he with his eternal puns, Which beat the dullest brain for smiles, like duns Thundering for money at a poet's door; Alas! it is no use to say, "I'm poor!" Or oft in graver mood, when he will look Things wiser than were ever read in book, Except in Shakespere's wisest tenderness.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking