 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pages
...knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but...jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick is... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1884 - 324 pages
...treatment. ' He has wit,' said Johnson, ' and one species of wit in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but...jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit ; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse.' Accordingly,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but...jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but he's gone, Sir, when you think you have got him—like an animal that jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit; he never lets truth... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 306 pages
...treatment. ' He has wit,' said Johnson, ' and one species of wit in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but...jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit ; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and ho is sometimes mighty coarse.' Accordingly,... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...' He is not a good mimic. . . . One species of wit he has in an eminent degree — that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands, but he's...jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit ; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but...jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit ; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is f -— sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pages
...knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but...has a great range for his wit ; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick is under many restraints from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 pages
...knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but...jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit ; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. G-arrick... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 464 pages
...it has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into u corner with both hands ; but he is gone, Sir, when you think you have got him — like...jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit ; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick... | |
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But he has wit too, and is not deficient in ideas, or in fertility and variety of imagery, and not empty of reading; he has knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner... 
