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共 160 题- CHARLES C. BOMBAUGH, A.M., M.D.
- PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
- J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
- Published October, 1905
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- OUR NATIONAL AIRS 39
- OUR HISTORIC CHARACTERS 47
- OUR WONDERLANDS 78
- OUR LANGUAGE 90
- FIRST THINGS 125
- PROTOTYPES 168
- FORECASTS 187
- MISCELLANEA CURIOSA 197
- FACETIÆ 223
- FLASHES OF REPARTEE 247
- THE WORD-TWISTING OF THE PUNSTERS 263
- CLEVER HITS OF THE HUMORISTS 276
- THE HITS OF THE SATIRISTS 298
- EVASIONS OF AMBIGUITY 322
- COMICAL BLUNDERS 331
- MISSING THE POINT OF THE JOKES 356
- EVEN HOMER SOMETIMES NODS 362
- THE STRETCHES OF POETIC LICENSE 375
- MISQUOTATION 380
- FALSITIES AND FALLACIES 383
- LEGENDARY LORE 417
- PARALLEL PASSAGES 462
- THE WIT OF THE EPIGRAMMATISTS 496
- ENIGMAS 514
- VOICES FROM GOD’S ACRE 523
- THE HONEYED PHRASE OF COMPLIMENT 550
- THE MAZES OF OBSCURITY 554
- IDEAL PHYSICAL PROPORTIONS 560
- FAMOUS BEAUTIES 567
- FEMALE POISONERS 583
- BREVITIES 593
- TOASTS AND MOTTOES 596
- FINIS CORONAT OPUS 604
- AMERICANA
- OUR NATIONAL AIRS
- OUR HISTORIC CHARACTERS
- In a letter to Whitefield, written shortly before his death, he said,—
- TO THOMAS JEFFERSON SMITH:
- 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
- 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- 3. Never spend your money before you have it.
- 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
- 6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
- 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
- 9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
- 10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
- He also says,—
- OUR WONDERLANDS
- OUR LANGUAGE
- 1. Words and phrases of American origin.
- 2. Perverted English words.
- 3. Obsolete English words commonly used in America.
- 4. English words American by inflection or modification.
- 5. Sayings of American origin.
- 6. Vulgarisms, cant, and slang.
- 7. Words brought by colonists from the continent of Europe.
- 8. Names of American things.
- 9. Individualisms.
- 10. Doubtful and miscellaneous.
- In Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Mad Lover_, the Fool says,—
- EDWIN M. STANTON.
- Pope, in his translation of the “Iliad,” says,—
- FIRST THINGS
- PROTOTYPES
- Dr. Draper, in his “Intellectual Development of Europe,” says,—
- The lines—
- FORECASTS
- MISCELLANEA CURIOSA
- HON. C. E. CLARKE.
- To correcting Ten Commandments 3.12
- Embellishing Pontius Pilate and putting new ribbon on his hat 3.02
- Putting new tail on rooster of St. Peter and mending his coat 3.20
- Repluming and regilding wing of Guardian angel 5.18
- Washing servant of high priest and putting carmine on his cheeks 5.02
- Renewing heaven, adjusting the stars, and cleaning up the moon 7.14
- Touching up Purgatory and restoring lost souls 3.06
- Taking spots off son of Tobias 1.30
- Putting ear-rings in Sarah’s ears 1.31
- Rebordering the Robes of Herod and adjusting his wig 4.00
- Cleaning Balaam’s ass and putting new shoes on him 1.70
- Decorating Noah’s ark and putting new head on Shem 4.31
- Mending shirt of prodigal son and cleaning his ear 3.39
- Total 59.10
- FACETIÆ
- Edwin Booth, as Richelieu, once said, in a Chicago theatre,—
- FLASHES OF REPARTEE
- Scott conveyed the message with fidelity, and Campbell replied,—
- THE WORD-TWISTING OF THE PUNSTERS
- On the marriage of Ebenezer Sweet and Jane Lemon a wag said,—
- And George D. Prentice once said,—
- Sum quod fui. (I am what I was.)
- CLEVER HITS OF THE HUMORISTS
- Pat was delighted at the joke, and, rubbing his hands gleefully, said,—
- THE HITS OF THE SATIRISTS
- Among the poems attributed to Lord Byron is one commencing with—
- THEOBALD.
- WARBURTON.
- JOHNSON.
- STEEVENS.
- EVASIONS OF AMBIGUITY
- COMICAL BLUNDERS
- Bonner approached one of them and said, interrogatively,—
- MISSING THE POINT OF THE JOKES
- EVEN HOMER SOMETIMES NODS
- Mark Pattison, in his Milton (“English Men of Letters”) series, says,—
- Milton was in error when he wrote,—
- THE STRETCHES OF POETIC LICENSE
- And farther on he says,—
- In a foot-note the novelist adds,—
- MISQUOTATION
- In _Measure for Measure_ the Duke Yincentio says,—
- FALSITIES AND FALLACIES
- LEGENDARY LORE
- Or in English,—
- PARALLEL PASSAGES
- And the bard of Twickenham tells us
- ORPHEUS C. KERR.
- THE JOYFUL WIDOWER.
- DUO CHE INSIEME VANNO.—_Dante._
- Enter _Vincentio_, in a travelling dress
- THE WIT OF THE EPIGRAMMATISTS
- ENIGMAS
- VOICES FROM GOD’S ACRE
- HARRIET MILL,
- J. C.
- PRINCE BISMARCK.
- THE HONEYED PHRASE OF COMPLIMENT
- THE MAZES OF OBSCURITY
- IDEAL PHYSICAL PROPORTIONS
- FAMOUS BEAUTIES
- FEMALE POISONERS
- BREVITIES
- Pierpont says of the ballot,—
- TOASTS AND MOTTOES
- EDMUND BURKE.
- RUFUS CHOATE.
- FINIS CORONAT OPUS
- I.
- II.
- III.
- W. C. BRYANT.
- INDEX
- BREVITIES, 593
- FEMALE POISONERS, 583
- HONEYED PHRASE OF COMPLIMENT, 550
- MAZES OF OBSCURITY, 554
- MISQUOTATION, 380
- MISSING THE POINT OF THE JOKES, 356
- OUR WONDERLANDS, 78
- PARALLEL PASSAGES, 462
- WORD-TWISTING BY THE PUNSTERS, 263
- THE END
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