 If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think that Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject than what that author has made use of in...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3351854Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...writing in general Wit, as he defines it, is " a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject." If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper : it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...in general. Wit, as he defines it, is " a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject." If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest .wit that ever set pen to paper : it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...Which, as Addison remarks, is not so properly a definition of wit, as of good writing in general. " If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper : it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...in general. Wit, as he defines it, is " a propriety of words and thought« adapted to the subject." If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 pages
...Which, as Addison remarks, is not so properly a definition of wit, as of good writing in general. " If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper : it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...genera1. ' Wit,' as he defines it, ' is a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject n.' If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper: it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...general. ' Wit,' as he defines it, ' is a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject n .' If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper: it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...in general. Wit, as he defines it, is " a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject." If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper : it is certain that never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...in general. Wit, as he defines it, is " a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject." If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper: it is certain that never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 572 pages
...Wit,' as he defines it, ' is a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject n.' If this be i true definition of wit, I am apt to think that Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper: it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
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