...Something whose truth, convinced at sight, ft find, That gives us back the image of our mind. P0PE. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. PoPE. As men of breeding, sometimes men of wit, T' avoid great errors...

...Alexander le Bref, from his epigram on a blockhead : in " there's " for " there is." Pope saith : " You beat your pate, and fancy Wit will come. Knock as you please ; there's nobody at home." Shakespeare, whose death in the double sixteen is easily remembered,...

...eh'it teiben. 9Joflein, 9Joflein, 9J6flein rct^, 9Joflein auf bet §aiben. GOETHE. Nobody at Home. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : knock as you will, there's nobody at home. SWIFT. Tula Silentio Merces. HlRRO sapit, memorant. — quod scripserit ?— absit ab illo dedecus...

...o'er his porter. " Clean," cried a cockney, just come down, " They even wash their milk with water." YOU beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. SWIFT. On a Parson who fell Asleep at a Party. STILL let him sleep,...

...Fletcher. — WIT that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. POPE, To Arbuthnot, 1. 333. ' — You beat your pate, and fancy WIT will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Ibid., Epigram. Wits — Great WITS are sure to madness near allied,...

...the Pope's Acerbity. 13 principal example of this, but we have many others — such as the epigram : "You beat your pate and fancy wit will come, Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." At one time he was constantly extolling the charms of Lady Wortley...

...Something whose truth, convinced at sight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. POPE. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. POPE. As men of breeding, sometimes men of wit, T' avoid great errors...

...And with the self-same weapon too." Anon. [From A Collection of Epigrams (1727).] CDII. ON ANOTHER. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)CDIII. ON ANOTHER. Rant is, they say, indicted...

...the Pope's Acerbity. 1 3 principal example of this, but we have many others — such as the epigram : "You beat your pate and fancy wit will come, Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." At one time he was constantly extolling the charms of Lady Wortley...

...While he but sought his author's fame to further, The murderous critic has avenged thy murder. Again : You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come. Knock as you please — there's nobody at home. Lastly, this on an unfortunate opera-singer : So bright is thy beauty,...