Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes: Comprising Interesting Reminiscences and Facts, Remarkable Traits and Humors … of Merchants, Traders, Bankers … Etc. in All Ages and Countries …

Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes: Comprising Interesting Reminiscences and Facts, Remarkable Traits and Humors ... of Merchants, Traders, Bankers ... Etc. in All Ages and Countries ...





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Wit and Humor; Their Use and Abuse





General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: S.C. Griggs and Company Subjects: Wit and humor Humor / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Humor / General Literary Criticism / Humor Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAFIER VI. PAKODY. It was becanse Homer was the most 1wpular poet that he was most susceptible of the playful honors of the parodist. -- Benjamin Disuaeli. AMONG the oldest and most popular forms of wit, none has been the subject of more praise and blame than parody. Just when it was invented it is not easy to say. A writer in the "Westminster Review" thinks that the first parodist was the comic minstrel in the early days of Greece, who, after the rhapsodist in his scarlet robe had recited to the people passages from the Iliad or the Odyssey, followed with a humorous or a burlesque imitation. Taking up the rhapsodist's strain with an air of mock solemnity, " he mimics his manner and gestures, and repeats a few lines of his high-sounding verse in a tone which sets the audience off in a shout of laughter. He feels that they are with him now, and presently, instead of great Menclaus and Peleus' godlike son, they hear their own names and their own affairs introduced and chanted with epic pomp. It is no longer the fate of Ilium that is to be decided in the council of the gods, but a quarrel between two slaves which they have just witnessed in the market. Unbounded is the mirth that greets every sly hit, which each believes is aimed at his neighbor. The broader the satire, the louder the laugh ; and as the minstrel warms in his subject, his jokes become very broad indeed. Atlength he ceases, -- either his wit or his breath runs short; and he calls for a g...









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