It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.


Essays, moral, political, and literary (ed. 1779)


It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.