...Dr. Barrow as the best description of wit and its modes of affecting us with which I am acquainted. " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, OP the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a...

...Dr. Barrow as the best description of wit and its modes of affecting us with which I am acquainted. " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite talc : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense,...

...notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging aji apposite tale ; — sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity...

...clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to...saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playcth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of...

...calamitous story without provokmg laughter. In the description of wit, given by Barrow, he says, " Sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound." Now this is the general character of Hood's wit. It is generally in the form of the pun. A mere punster...

...the creatures of a midsummer's dream. "Sometimes their facetiousness lieth," as Barrow says, " in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying. Sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the...

...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Froteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phraaes, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes...

...exemplified in the pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit- in general, ¡t may be truly said, that " sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite talc ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense,...

...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in PAT ALLUSION to a known itory, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes...

...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging ar apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of...