正文 VIII. -- THAT VERBAL ALLUSIONS ARE NOT WIT, BECAUS

The same might be said of the wittiest local allusions. A is sometimes as difficult to explain to a fner as a pun. What would bee of a great part of the wit of the last age, if it were tried by this test? How would certain topics, as aldermanity, cuckoldry, have souo a Terentian auditory, though Terence himself had been alive to translate them? Senator urbanus, with Curruca to boot for a synonime, would but faintly have dohe business. Words, involving notions, are hard enough to render; it is too much to expect us to translate a sound, and give a version to a jihe Virgilian harmony is not translatable, but by substituting harmonious sounds in another language for it. To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will ao it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practi the old monkish doggerel. Dennis, the fiercest oppugner of puns in a or modern times, professes himself highly tickled with the ……（内容加载失败！）

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