 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...consenting * to it, he told her, " My dear, it is only this, that u you will never marry an old man again." I cannot " help remarking, that sickness, which often...destroys " both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to re" move that talent we call humour : Mr. Wycherley " showed this even in this last compliment ; though... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pages
...consenting to it, he told her, " My dear, it is only this, that yon will never marry an old man again." I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often...wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call humour: Mr. Wycherley showed this, even in this last compliment; though I think his request... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 362 pages
...consenting to it, he told her, " My dear, it is only this, that you " will never marry an old man again." I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often...wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which' we call humour: Mr. Wycherley shewed his, even in this last compliment : though I think his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...consenting " to it, he told her, " My dear, it is only this, that " you will nevermarry an old man again." I cannot " help remarking, that sickness, which often...destroys " both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to re" move that talent we call humour : Mr. Wycherley " showed this even in this last compliment ; though... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 406 pages
...consenting to it, he told her, " My dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again." I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often...wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call Humour7 : Mr. Wycherley shewed his, even in this last compliment: though I think his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 424 pages
...consenting to it, he told her, " My dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again." I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often...wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call Humour7 : Mr. Wycherley shewed his, even in this last compliment : though I think his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 pages
...consenting to it, he told her, " My dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again." I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often...wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call Humour. Mr. Wycherley shewed his, even in this last compliment ; though I think his request... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...strikingly distinguished from wit, which displays itself only in the happy expression of happy thoughts ; ' I cannot help remarking that sickness, which often...wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call humour. Mr. Wycherley showed his in his last compliment paid to his young wife (whom... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
...identified with our earliest associations and impressions. Nor is it merely in our early years that humour and a sense of the ludicrous appear in full force....Wycherley. " I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which of" ten destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to " remove that talent we call humour."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...consenting to it, he told her, ' My 'dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an 'old man again.' I cannot help remarking, that • sickness which often destroys both wit and wis' dom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent ' we call humour: Mr. Wycherley shewed this even... | |
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I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call Humour. 
