English Humorists of to-Day (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from English Humorists of to-Day Some few years ago I assisted, as the French say, at a literary gathering to which several popular authors had been invited for the purpose of discussing "Humour in Literature." The result of the discussion, so far as I can now recall it, was entirely profitless, though I can testify that the exchange of ideas was in every way entertaining. The result was profitless for the simple reason that with the sad superfluous pertinacity of the young debater these notable men of letters endeavoured to arrive at some definition of humour. As I have never found any two persons to be completely in accord on this point, and indeed have seldom known any one person to give precisely the same definition twice, I do not purpose attempting any serious consideration of the subject here. There exists a weighty treatise on A Theory of Wit and Humour, and the intrepid definition hunter may be referred to that - with the suspicion that what sense of humour he possessed before will afterwards be modified. I shall not even observe the time-honoured custom of writers on this subject by quoting from Addison´s essay on True and False Humour, or his Six Papers on Wit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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