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...punster asks : Could Socrates the girls? Could Bartholomew? Could Shakespeare an eel? Could Shylock a bank safe? Could Cataline his trouserloons? Could Americus? Could Livingstone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOETS AND COMMENTS. | 2/24/1882 | See Source »

...Dartmouth speaks of the habit of punning as "paranourasia" and says : "The inveterate punster soon comes to regard words as mere symbols on which he is to strike the tinkling changes of his word-music; he takes all the beauty out of Homer's "winged words" by making them shuttlecocks which he is to bandy back and forth at the mere catch of sounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/16/1882 | See Source »

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