An old song, made by an aged old pate,
Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate,
That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate,
And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate.
With an old study ?lld full of learned old books,
With an old reverend chaplain, you might know him by his looks,
With an old buttery-hatch worn quite off the hooks,
And an old kit that maintained half-a-dozen old cooks.
Like an old courtier, etc.--Old Song.
THERE is no species of humor in which the English more excel than that which sists in caricaturing and giving ludicrous appellations or niames. In this way they have whimsically designated, not merely individuals, but nations, and in their fondness for pushing a joke they have not spared even themselves.
One would think that in personifying itself a nation would be apt to picture something grand, heroid imposing; but it is characteristic of the peculiar humor of the English, and of their love for what is blun……（内容加载失败！）
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