 | James Boswell - 1963 - 472 pages
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 | James Boswell - 1963 - 472 pages
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 | Martin Price - 1973 - 852 pages
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 | 1979 - 390 pages
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 | John L. Mahoney - 1980 - 792 pages
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 | James Boswell - 1980 - 1534 pages
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 | Robert Browning - 2001 - 532 pages
...Johnson said of Foote the comedian: 'One species of wit he has to an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands; but he's...him — like an animal that jumps over your head': Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. by GB Hill, rev. LF Powell (6 vols., Oxford, 1934—50), iii. 69. We... | |
 | Robert Browning - 2001 - 432 pages
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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... 
