 | Irma S. Lustig - 308 pages
...of sentiment in it. (2: 464) One species of wit he [Foote] 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. (3: 69) "Goldsmith was a plant that flowered late"... | |
 | Matthew J. Kinservik - 2002 - 316 pages
...attractive. As Samuel Johnson said of Foote, "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."* 6 Foote was a mimic with a protean ability to step... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1961 - 162 pages
...improvisatore of his age, Dr Johnson remarked: '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 are thinking you have got him — like an animal that jumps over your head.'31 This exactly describes... | |
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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... 
