One of the wittiest books published for many years.
Here is all her “epigrammatic felicity,” and an irony not surpassed by Heine himself, while her paper on the poet Young is one of her wittiest bits of critical analysis.
He had the old man's weakness, garrulity; and he told the wittiest stories in the world, without omitting anything in them but the point.
No, no, come and sit down by Madame de Cornuel: she longs to be introduced to you, and is one of thewittiest women in Europe.
We all know' we are the cleverest and wittiest people under the sun; but then our wit has been stereotyped.
It was sufficiently successful to induce him to follow it up with the 'Provoked Wife,' one of the wittiest pieces produced in those days.
Donne (the wittiest man of that age), and we shall find them full of this vein.
His "Fireside Travels" was pronounced by Bryant the wittiest book ever written; and it is not more witty than much of his conversation.
Voltaire, with animation: "one of the wittiest and most celebrated women of Paris.
Do not make yourself a laughing-stock for all the wittiest men in Paris; come to my house, we will talk it over.
Not all that the wittiest men of his time could say, nor aught that comedy or farce could produce on the stage, was ever known to call up more than a smile on his iron-bound countenance.
Rabelais is among his masters, and so is Aretino, "one of the wittiest knaves that ever God made.
Moreover, he told her the wittiest stories, turned the courtiers into the greatest ridicule for her entertainment, and made her acquainted with the most diverting scandals.
He never spoke a thing but what was said before; and yet can converse with the wittiest men without being ridiculous.
You are e'enamost thewittiest critter I ever seed.
After dinner she goes and fetches a little son of Mr. Backeworth's, the wittiest child and of the most spirit that ever I saw in my life for discourse of all kind, and so ready and to the purpose, not above four years old.
Henry Erskine, the acknowledged leader of the Scottish Bar, and one of the ablest and wittiest of men, was a son of the fifth Earl of Buchan, who died in 1767, and was succeeded in the title by his eldest son David.
It is only justice to the memory of the wittiest of men to say that 'decently well' as applied to his parochial work is faint praise.
The book was declared by Emerson to be the wittiest ever written.
That it is the key that admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination; to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment?
To suggest that Mercutio was in need of visible promptings for his fancy, is to diminish the quick-wittedness of Shakspere's wittiest character.
He was the merriest, the wildest, the wittiest of the little party of gay youths that night.
That is the wittiest turning of satire into comedy I have ever known," she cried.
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