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14973	nan	Essays on Wit No. 2			.txt	text/plain	9894	557	72	_Essay on Wit_ (1748); Richard Flecknoe's _Of one that Zany's the good Both fancy and judgment, said Hobbes (_Human Nature_, X, sect. (Between this idea of wit as discovering likeness short, wit is delightful, but, because it leads away from truth, Embellishments of Discourse by all who aim at the Character of Wits." The author of the _Essay on Wit_ places this reason wit was likely to be considered out of place in serious Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule_, 1744, probably the best essay "Of Wit" in the _Weekly Register_ for July 22, 1732, ventured ridicule in which fancy was primarily involved; at its best wit was little histories of wit, which appear through the age of Dryden and Passions seek not Expressions of Wit. _Priam_ and _Hecuba_ don't make give the Name of Wit, never ought to be introduced into great Works moderns excell the ancients in all the arts of Ridicule, and assign	./cache/14973.txt	./txt/14973.txt