raillery
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For Raillery, and what creates a Smile Betrays no lofty Genius, nor a Style.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel
For a Subject which will not bear Raillery, is suspicious; and a Jest which will not bear a serious Examination, is certainly false Wit.
From Essays on Wit No. 2 by Flecknoe, Richard
But we have already explained what they mean by Raillery.
From An Essay on Criticism by Oldmixon, John
I must not omit another incomparable Piece of Wit and Raillery against Popery, publish’d at that time.
From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony
Chimney-Sweepers pass'd by us as we made up to the Market, and some Raillery happened between one of the Fruit-Wenches and those black Men, about the Devil and Eve, with Allusion to their several Professions.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest
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