...come out of the sack, if it's not in it. If not in the brain, you cannot produce it. Pope says : — " You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please ; there's nobody at home." It grieves one dog that another goes into the kitchen. He would like...

...-" The Devil was sick, the Devil a saint would be; The Devil was well, the devil a saint was he." -" You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come. Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." -" Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; But it is tyrannous...

...attributed to Swift.] STRANGE! all this Difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-ofcOT and Tweedle-flk / EPIGRAM. YOU beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. EPITAPH. [IMITATED by Goldsmith in his Epitaph on Edward Purdon, 'a...

...no use at all ; But in its full perfection of decay Turns vinegar, and comes again in play." (6) " You beat your pate and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." (7) " By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear...

...to Swift.], STRANGE! all this Difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-afc»z and Tweedle-ofe/ EPIGRAM. YOU beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. EPITAPH. [IMITATED by Goldsmith in his Epitaph on Edward Purdon, '...

...to complete a series for " Cruikshank's Almanack " — the very situation in Pope's epigram : — " You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." Meanwhile another had arisen who was destined to overshadow for many...

...agreeable visions in the fancy. — LOCKE. There is many a man hath more hair than wit. — SHAKESPEARE. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. —POPE. Wit does not take the place of knowledge. — VAUVENARGUES....

...all they've taught me." BN D-CKM-N. " So wise, so young, they say do ne'er live long." JAC- -CH. " You beat your pate and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." HB H-LL. " Why should every creature drink but I ? Man of morals,...

...dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. t. POPE — Essay on Criticism. Pt. II. L.97. Wagnalls Company please, there's nobody at home. u. POPE — Epigram. Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots,...

...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...