Show what wit Is no one has ever told us exactly what wit is dr isaac barrow a famous english diviak and a man of brilliant wit himself has given the best definition yet known and he confesses that often it consi in one hardly knows what he aada in his old fashioned style sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story or in seasonable application of a trivial saying or in forging an opposite tale sometimes it in words and phrases taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their soend sometimes it burketh ander an odd similitude sometimes it is lodged in a sly question in a emart answer in a reason in a shrewd imitation a tart irony a lusty hyperbole or a startling roeta sometimes an affected simplicity and sometimes a presumptuous bluntness it being sometimes it arises from a I 1 lucky hitting upon what is strange aroa a crafty wrestling of matter to the purpose this excellent study this clause and find a witticism to match it 1 have not given the entire definition but just enough to stimulate some one to look it up for himself new york home journal |