...or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected simplicity ; sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.' Of all the preceding varieties of wit, next to the ' play with words and phrases,' perhaps Fuller most...

...look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a...matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one hardly knows what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how, being answerable to the numberless rovings...

...look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Otten it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable...

...look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected simplicity ; sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language." Of all the preceding varieties of wit, next to the " play with words and phrases," perhaps Fuller most...

...look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected simplicity ; sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a...purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and•springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable; being answerable...

...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one knows not how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the rovings of fancy...

...hitting upon what "is strange;—often it consisteth in one knows not "what, and ariseth one knows not how: its ways are " unaccountable and inexplicable,...to "the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of lan" guage. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of " the plain way, which, by an uncouthness...

...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, givcth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes...from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose : oftsn it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one knows not how. Its ways are unaccountable...

...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes...from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose : oftsn it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one knows not how. Its ways are unaccountable...

...figure of a fleeting air." The doctor then proceeds to describe it, and concludes by saying, that " often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language !" This description of wit has never been surpassed. But it is not a definition. And all the definitions...