 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...profound investigator, is a liquor compounded of spirit and acid juices, sugar and water. The spirit, volatile and fiery, is the proper emblem of vivacity...aptly figure pungency of raillery, and acrimony of censure ; sugar is the natural representative of luscious adulation and gentle complaisance ; and water... | |
 | William Minto - English language - 1895 - 578 pages
...take the following comparison between punch and conversation : — "The spirit, volatile and ftery, is the proper emblem. of vivacity and wit ; the acidity...aptly figure pungency of raillery and acrimony of censure : sugar is the natural representative of luscious adulation and gentle complaisance ; and water... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - English language - 1912 - 274 pages
...style. I quote from Minto1 Samuel Johnson's comparison between punch and conversation: 'The spirit, volatile and fiery, is the proper emblem of vivacity...aptly figure pungency of raillery and acrimony of censure; sugar is the natural representative of luscious adulation and gentle complaisance; and water... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - English language - 1923 - 284 pages
...style. I quote from Minto 21 Samuel Johnson 's comparison between punch and conversation : ' The spirit, volatile and fiery, is the proper emblem of vivacity...aptly figure pungency of raillery and acrimony of censure ; sugar is the natural representative of luscious adulation and gentle complaisance ; and water... | |
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The spirit, volatile and fiery, is the proper emblem of vivacity and wit ; the acidity of the lemon. will very aptly figure pungency of raillery, and acrimony of censure; sugar is the natural representative of luscious adulation and gentle complaisance... 
