In every country he is at once witty and commonplace.
It was at a princely residence in the country, that the witty author of the popular "Letters from the Baltic," met Countess Rossi, charming and attractive as in the first burst of her popularity.
The editors of the papers for which he writes accept him as a wise and witty personage; they know nothing about the charity or the cheque,--it is not necessary for them to know.
But by the Favour of these Gentlemen, I am humbly of Opinion, that a Man may be a very witty Man, and never offend one Statute of this Kingdom, not excepting even that of Stabbing.
There is no Inhabitant of any standing in Covent-Garden, but can tell you a hundred good Humours, where People have come off with little Blood-shed, and yet scowered all the witty Hours of the Night.
This, it seems, has encouraged my Sauce-Box to be witty upon me.
If I do not take care to obviate some of my witty Readers, they will be apt to tell me, that my Paper, after it is thus printed and published, is still beneficial to the Publick on several Occasions.
An Evil Intention perverts the best of Actions, and makes them in reality, what the Fathers with a witty kind of Zeal have termed the Virtues of the Heathen World, so many shining Sins.
Sunday after Sunday she sat at the feet of that extremelywitty preacher, the Rev.
They are keen in their thrusts at dogmatic religion, sparkling with witty hits at a make-believe piety, and full of biting sarcasm.
Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse, Selected by Alexander Main.
He was clever in nicknames and witty expressions,--as when he dubbed the Blue Book of the Import Duties Committee "the greatest work of imagination that the nineteenth century had produced.
His official life may almost be said to have been passed in the Foreign Office; he was acquainted with all its details, and as indefatigable in business as he was witty in society, to the pleasures of which he was unusually devoted.
A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.
Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying.
Polished with humanity and the study ofwitty science.
Rome, set up against the wall of the place of the Orsini; -- so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up.
A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.
Young, in his "Love of Fame," very adroitly improves on a witty conceit of Butler.
Footnote 186: This witty poet was not without a degree of prescience; the luxury of eating spiders has never indeed become "modish," but Mons.
So it spurred him a moment, when it struck this doleful man that to have secured one kiss of those fresh and witty sparkling lips he would endure forfeits, pangs, anything save the hanging of his culprit's head before his Emma.
Lady Wathin's table could dispense with witty women, and, for that matter, witty men.
This had been a house of a witty host, a merry girl, junketting guests; a house of hilarious thunders, lightnings of fun and fancy.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty Beauty is a power.
She 's Irish by descent; Merion's daughter, witty as her father.
A witty woman is such salt that where she has once been tasted she must perforce be missed more than any of the absent, the dowering heavens not having yet showered her like very plentifully upon us.
Behold the effect of Journalism: a witty man, sparkling overnight, gets into his pulpit and proses; because he must say something, and he really knows nothing.
It was here that what may be called the first Danish people'scomedies took their origin,--comedies in which the events of the day were worked up always in an innocent, but witty and amusing manner.
We always make her Isabel for she is such a beguiling little thing that she is not only witty herself, but spurs up every one else to be witty too.
Boccaccio is wittyand malicious; Masuccio humorous and poignant.
The Indian girls about her like her for her generous nature and her merry, witty speeches.
Her natural gift of ready and witty conversation, as well as her helpful disposition, won her many friends without effort.
She that marries a fool, Sir Sampson, forfeits the reputation of her honesty or understanding; and she that marries a very witty man is a slave to the severity and insolent conduct of her husband.
Don't you see how worthless great men and dull rich rogues avoid a witty man of small fortune?
A witty Woman conceited, looks like a handsome Woman set out with Frippery: Aw'dw.
Why, Madam, there are abundance of Critticks, and witty Men that are Soldiers.
I have elsewhere related other of hiswitty remarks.
And though the answer meant nothing, the general looked as though he had heard a witty remark from a witty man, and fully relished la pointe de la sauce.
Reflective writers like George Eliot or George Meredith are more often witty than humorous.
Perhaps he was more witty than humorous; he also had an analytic mind of rarer quality even than De Quincey's, and his Table Talk is full of delightful flashes.
She was remembering acutely the lines of that pleasant, charming face, the satirical yet boyish blue eye behind the eye-glass, his gay and witty remarks, his zest for dancing.
His tongue had a witty twist and his eye under a black-ribboned eye-glass was blue and merry as a boy's.
These wise and witty reflections were interrupted by a stir in the crowd and a general movement in the direction of the two great doors which were now flung open.
Shadwell's comedy of "Epsom Wells" was very successful; which was imputed by his enemies to the assistance he received from the witty Sir Charles Sedley.
I could design twenty of 'em in an hour, if I had but witty fellows about me to draw 'em.
It contains, however, some witty and some humorous description, and the reader may be pleased to see a specimen: Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome.
I see him ogle still, and hear him chat; Selling facetious bargains, and propounding That witty recreation, called dum-founding.
