DEFINITION OF WIT
Published in Literary Remains from which it is here reprinted. Cf. the essay ‘On Wit and Humour’ in vol. VIII. (English Comic Writers) pp. 5–30.
PAGE [445]. ‘Wherein,’ etc. See vol. VIII. pp. 18–19. ‘The squandering glances,’ etc. As You Like it, Act II. Sc. 7. [446]. ‘Revive,’ etc. Quoted elsewhere from Scott. [448]. ‘Foregone conclusion.’ Othello, Act III. Sc. 3. ‘Skin,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 4. [449]. ‘In cut and dye,’ etc. Hudibras, I. I. 243–4. ‘The house,’ etc. Misquoted from Swift’s Vanbrugh’s House. [450]. ‘Turned from black to red.’ Hudibras, II. II. 32. ‘Like jewels,’ etc. Collins, Ode, The Manners, 55. [451]. ‘Pray lend me,’ etc. Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act V. Sc. 4. [453]. ‘A forked radish,’ 2 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 2.