Carlyle classes Sterne with Cervantes among the great humourists of the world; and from one, and that the most important, point of view the praise is not extravagant.
But even with the wits who very often give us humour also, and with the humourists who as often delight us with their wit, we seldom find ourselves in any doubt as to the real and more essential affinities of each.
The opinion entertained of him by the humourists of the day is abundantly evidenced in their correspondence.
We are now come to the greatest name on our list—the highest among the poets, the highest among the English wits and humourists with whom we have to rank him.
With this new public, clamorous and appreciative, why do humourists try so hard to be novel?
But the humourists are not a court of final appeal.
In this direction there was in 1836, a very embarras de richesses, for, if comic artists were few, there was on the other hand no lack of humourists of the highest order of merit.
Hypercriticism, happily, would be out of place in a work dealing with caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century.
Mr. Leech, his chief contributor, and some kindred humourists with pencil and pen, have served Mr. Punch admirably.
Covering an area so boundless in extent, it is scarcely surprising that Mr. Parton should devote only thirty of his pages to the consideration of English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century.
Those writers who have this last in unusual measure become the favourite humourists of the world.
All genuine humourists may in this sense be called tea-philosophers, Thackeray, for instance, and of course, Shakespeare.
Western humourists were not slow to mingle the fragrance of their thought with its aroma.
The squibs, in the shape of poetical broadsheets and songs of the Stuart era, against sylvan aspirations, were but re-echoed by the bright and cultivated humourists who flourished when 'Anna ruled the realm.
On the other hand, certainly he at times makes his characters more laughable than nature; few great humourists have so persistently sought to efface the line which separates the barely possible from the morally probable.
But that our Society may not appear a Set of Humourists unacquainted with the Gallantries and Pleasures of the Age, we have among us the gallant WILL.
Just as all French people are wits by reason of the epigrammatic structure of their language, so are all Americans humourists by reason of the national stores of picturesque slang and analogy to which they have access.
Three American professional humourists whom I had the good fortune to meet and be with for some time were Irvin Cobb, Don Marquis, and Oliver Herford, each authentic and each so different.
These two humourists obtained their effect by the simple method, lately advocated by Messrs Roosevelt and Carnegie, of spelling as they pleased.
Nor is it in the works of the humourists that we shall catch a glimpse of the national character.
It is because these freaks take themselves seriously, because they are unconscious humourists and involuntary farceurs, that they are amusing.
American humourists call a white shirt a "clean biled rag.
Humourists have divided these three portions of one Church into Attitudinarians, Platitudinarians, and Latitudinarians.
So called because it is supposed by calculating humourists to be TWO TO ONE against the redemption of a pledged article.
The older humouristsknew the value of light and shade.
We are never so apt to lose our sense of proportion as when we consider those beloved writers whom we hold to be humourists because they have made us laugh.
Hood and other light-minded humourists laughed at him for drinking bitter tea; but he was not to be shaken by ridicule.
The figures of the humourists live and move before our eyes.
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