 | 1781 - 754 sider
...touches were marked with plcafantry and fun. He never laughed like Rabelais at vonfen fe that he impofed for wit ; but like Swift combined incidents that divert one from their unexpected encounter, and ulnltrate the tale he means to tell. Such are the hens roofting on the upright waves in the fcene of... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1780 - 504 sider
...touches were marked w»h pleafantry and fun. He never laughed like Rabelais at nonfenfe that he impofed for wit ; but like Swift combined incidents that divert...illustrate the tale he means to tell. Such are the hens rootling on the upright waves in thefcene of the Strollers, and the devils drinking porter on the altar.... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 sider
...touches were marked with pleafantry, and fun. He never laughed like Rabela:s at nonfenfe that he impofed for wit ; but like Swift combined incidents that divert one from their unexpected encounter, and illuftrate the tale he means to tell. Such are the hen» rootling on the upright wave:, in the (cene... | |
 | 1782 - 542 sider
...touches were marked with plealantry and fun. He never laughed like RabeUis at nonfenle that he impeled for wit ; but like Swift, combined incidents that divert one from their unexpected encounter, and illuftrate the tale he means to tell. The manners or cultores are more than observed in tvny one of... | |
 | John Nichols - 1782 - 502 sider
...marked w.jth *' pleafantry and fun. He never laughed, like Ra" belais, at nonfenfe that he impofed for wit ; but, " like Swift, combined incidents that...divert one " from their unexpected encounter, and iLJuftrate " the tale he means to tell. Such are the hens *' roofting on the upright waves in the,fcene... | |
 | 1808 - 408 sider
...laughed like ilabelai* at nonsense thnt be imposed for j «it; but like Swift combined incidents I hat divert one from their unexpected encounter, and illustrate...on the upright waves in the scene of the Strollers, aud the devils drinking porter on the altar. The manners, or costume, are more than observed in every... | |
 | William Granger - 1808 - 630 sider
...were marked with pleafantry and fun. He never laughed, like Rabelais, at nonfenfe, that he impofed for wit ; but like Swift, combined incidents that divert one from their unexpected encounter, and illuftrate the tale he means to tell." It can anfwer no good purpefe to rake the aflies of the illuftrious... | |
 | 1813 - 496 sider
...might not be offended at his lectures, and might learn to laugh at their own follies. When his topics were harmless, all his touches were marked with pleasantry...their unexpected encounter, and illustrate the tale that he meant to tell. Such were the hens roosting on the upright waves in the scene of the Strollers,... | |
 | 1821 - 732 sider
...were more generous and extensive, mirth coloured his pictures, but bencvolenoe designed them." — " He never laughed, like Rabelais, at nonsense that...encounter, and illustrate the tale he means to tell. The manners or costume are more than observed in every one of his works, and the furniture of his rooms... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 sider
...might not be offended at his lectures, and might learn to laugh at their own follies. When his topics were harmless, all his touches were marked with pleasantry...upright waves in the scene of the Strollers, and the devils drinking porter on the altar. The manners or costume are more than observed in every one of... | |
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He never laughed like Rabelais at nonsense that he imposed for wit ; but like Swift combined incidents that divert one from their unexpected encounter, and illustrate the tale he means to tell. 
