Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes - Page 4

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• Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Real, Taken, Air

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• Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Style, Models, Affected

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• Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Irony, Insult, Compliment

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.52

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• The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Brother, Father, Essence

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• Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Iron, Hatred, Scorpions

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.46

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