 | Globe encyclopaedia - 1879 - 642 halaman
...point or witticism,' and Old Eng. punían, ' to bruise ') is defined by Addison (Spectator, No.6l) as 'a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound but differ in the sense.' It constitutes, according to Wendell Holmes, the crime of ' verbicide, ie, violent treatment of a word... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 698 halaman
...PUN. A pun has been defined by Addison (' Spectator,' No. Cl) to be ' a conceit arising from the nse of two words that agree in the sound but differ in the sense.' Sometimes, however, the pun is effected by the employment of only one word, which is susceptible of... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 670 halaman
...bruise, and the French point/, a point or witticism) has been defined by Addison (Spectator, No. 61) to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. Sometimes, however, the pan is effected by the employment of only one word, which is susceptible of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 572 halaman
...Having pursued the history of a pun, from its original to its downfall, I shall here define it to be 40 a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language : if it... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 208 halaman
...pun, from its original to its downfall, I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the nse of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way, therefore, to try a piece of wit is to translate it into a different language. If it... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 476 halaman
...punning. Having pursued the history of a pun, from its original to its downfall, I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words...that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way, therefore, to try a piece of wit is to translate it into a different language. If it... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 halaman
...punning. Having pursued the history of a pun, from its original to its downfall, I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words...that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way, therefore, to try a piece of wit is to translate it into a different language. If it... | |
 | Emil Saudé - 1906 - 82 halaman
...literarische Hinrichtung dieser pseudopoetischen Sächelchen wird im ,,Spectator" vollzogen : Auf „pun", dh „a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense", kommt Addison nämlich in der 61. Nummer zurück, bespricht die Akrosticha (Spect. No. 58; 60), die... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 halaman
...Butler in Hudibras for comic and satiric effect. A whole essay is reserved for an attack on punning, "a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense." This is "false wit" to anyone who has John Locke's approach to language, and the fact that the pun... | |
 | John Calhoun Stephens - 840 halaman
...produces, and the Tendency that it hath to promote Vigour of Body, and Ease of Mind. 'The Punn is defined by one, who seems to be no Well-wisher to it, to be...differ in the Sense.* Now if this be the Essence of the Punn, how great must we allow the Dignity of it to be, when we consider that it takes in most of the... | |
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I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears the test, you may pronounce... 
