id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 16233 Morris, Corbyn An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) .txt text/plain 21575 1255 68 of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule_ towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, why _Humour_ is more pleasurably felt than _Wit_, are new and proper distinctions in the meanings of such terms as wit, humour, and Appearances, not of WIT only, but of _Raillery_, _Satire_, _arranging_ it with another Subject, are yet different from WIT, _Persons_ in real Life; WIT appears in _Comparisons_, either between However, though HUMOUR and WIT are thus absolutely different in HUMOUR and WIT, as they may thus both be united in the same Subject, _Foibles_ of some Persons in Life, they may justly be made the Subject 2. HUMOUR is _Nature_, or what really appears in the Subject, without _Humour_ appears, in the Representation of a Person in real Life, from _Wit_, or _Ridicule_;--However, _Humour_ and _Raillery_ united _Humour_, _Raillery_, _Satire_, and _Ridicule_, appear not only There are other Combinations of _Wit_, _Humour_, _Raillery_, _Satire_, ./cache/16233.txt ./txt/16233.txt