IRONY.
Irony is an insult conveyed in tlio form of a compliment, placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with roseleaves; adorning his brow with a crown of gold, .which burns into his brain; teasing and fretting, and riddling him through with incessant discharges of that shot from a masked battery; laying baro the most sensitive nnd shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. —Whipple.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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82IRONY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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