If by be only meant t far-fetcartling, o it. A pun is not bound by t nicer . It is a pistol let off at t a feato tickle tellect. It is an antic and upon manners, but comes bounding into t simes by t t limp a little, or prove defective in one leg -- all tter. A pun may easily be too curious and artificial. at one time or ot a party of professors ( line), ingenious conceits, every man contributing , and some t expert sers of ter making a poor let till it is ready to drop; after ing and ter squeezing, and ugging at it, till t yield a drop furt-of felloo trade, so pertinent; so brazen in its pretensions, yet so impossible to be denied; so exquisitely good, and so deplorably bad at time, -- t it ; -- any terior to t is despaired of; and ty breaks up, unanimously voting it to be t (t is, best) pun of t is tter for not being perfect in all its parts. it gains in completeness, it loses in naturalness. tly it satisfies tical, t ies. t entertaining are t bear an analysis. Of t of stigma, in one of Ss Miscellanies.
An Oxford scing a porter s, accosts raordinary question: quot;Prit t;
ting it. A man migen sides of paper in attempting a defence of it against a critic self is not considerable. It is only a neurn given, by a little false pronunciation, to a very common, t very courteous inquiry. Put by one gentleman to anot a dinner-party, it ress of t take in totality of time, place, and person; t look of ter; topping at leisure, t t tendency of t member of tion, ter and inextricable irrelevancy of treet, not favourable to frivolous investigations; tive quality of tive inquiry (tion) invidiously transferred to tive (turn given to it) in tire; namely, t fe tribe are expected [p 259] to eat of t countries considered ratemporary trustees ties,and; but t: all put togetitute a picture: intelligible on canvass.
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