id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13484 Blackmore, Richard, Sir Essay upon Wit .txt text/plain 11424 349 52 Throughout his writings Blackmore has a good deal to say about Wit, Pleasure and Approbation, as those that abound with Wit and Humour, Seasonings of Wit and Raillery in Writing and Conversation, that Tho perhaps the Talent which we call Wit, like that of Humour, is of Men. The Conversation of ingenious Libertines generally turns upon this Subject, from the Writings of a good Judge of Wit, and as great Men have the Fortune to be esteem'd Wits, only for jesting out of the delicate Turn of Wit; when impure Sentiments are express'd by Men of a Another pernicious Abuse of Wit is that which appears in the Writings Wit and good Sense would have made those merry Authors as odious for Men of loose Manners, and therefore unlikely Persons to undertake the of Men of Wit and Humour, who not being easy in their Fortunes, ./cache/13484.txt ./txt/13484.txt