Bierce’s ‘‘Devil’s Dictionary’’ made its unher- alded debut in along with ‘‘Prattle,’’ his weekly column of miscellaneous commentary, as his first contributions to the San Francisco weekly, the www.doorway.ru Size: 1MB. · Excerpt: ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’. By Ambrose Bierce. . Alta. Select entries from Ambrose Bierce’s lexicon of cynicism, bitterness, and humor, produced over a year period beginning in Apologize, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offence. Bard, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was an ignoramus, Mumble was for learning famous.
The Devil's Dictionary. Ambrose Bierce ( - ) Ambrose Bierce ( - ?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of humour and his cynical outlook on life colour a. The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in , This complete text of the The Devil's Dictionary book by Ambrose Bierce is in the public domain. The copyright-free illustrations are from "The Complete Alphabet Of Children" of Hans Holbein the Younger (). The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American Civil War soldier, journalist, and writer Ambrose Bierce consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical www.doorway.ru lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspapers. Bierce's witty definitions were imitated and plagiarized for years before he gathered them.
Bierce, Ambrose, ? Title: The Devil's Dictionary Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: English language -- Dictionaries -- Humor Subject: English language -- Semantics -- Humor Subject: Vocabulary -- Humor Category: Text: EBook-No. Release Date: Jul 1, Copyright Status. INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system. "THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY" is a classic satire in the form of a dictionary on which Bierce worked for decades. It was originally published in as The Cynic's Word Book before being retitled in A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms.
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