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“With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.”

Littles Art Clear Wit Delivery Oratory

Book:Faust

Source: Faust

“With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.”

Littles Wit Suits Ease Tails Trails Kitten

Book:Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide

Source: Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide

“A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.”

Men Wells Littles Deals Ill Wit Instance Satire

Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs May Littles Shows Light Would Be Levels Half Flow Errors Faults Surface Wit Glad Bites Pearls Scarce Straws Fleas

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.”

May Littles Wit Mysterious Malice Censure

Author:John Dryden

“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .”

Giving Littles Art Stills Book Soul Age Lying Rooms Wonder Alive Stage Praise Delight Wit Thee Monument Applause Tombs Lodges Chaucer Spenser

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.”

Ifs Men May Littles Happens Pieces Genius Abuse Wit Borders Remarkable Obliged

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners