"For, says he, PUNS are like so many Torch-Lights in the Head, that give the Soul a very distinct View of those Images, which she before seemed to groap after as if she had been imprisoned in a Dungeon."
The Art of Punning
4 entries in ESTC (1719, 1720).<br>
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Reading Thomas Sheridan and Jonathan Swift [attrib.], <u>Ars Punica, sive Flos Linguarum; The Art of Punning; or, The Flower of Languages</u>, 2nd ed. (Dublin; reprinted at London, J. Roberts, 1719).