true Wit
consists in the Resemblance of Ideas, and
false Wit
in the Resemblance of Words, according to the foregoing Instances; there is another kind of Wit which consists partly in the Resemblance of Ideas, and partly in the Resemblance of Words; which for Distinction Sake I shall call
mixt Wit
. This kind of Wit is that which abounds in
Cowley
, more than in any Author that ever wrote. Mr.
Waller
has likewise a great deal of it. Mr.