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Excerpt from Books and Plays Creatures - truly children of his brain - are pos sessed, one and all, with 'thick coming fancies.' Metaphors, analogies, similes, epigrams, chase one another through his pages. It may savour of a reproach, to say that he constantly aims at wit, but I remember that Charles Lamb has said (i don't know whether Lamb really said it, but I conform gladly to the custom that gives him all wandering good things that are good enough), that this is, at least, better than aiming at dulness. Wit, indeed, is assumed to be the common attribute Of the human race, and it may be admitted that his manifestation of it is, sometimes, brilliantly inappropriate. He has. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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