"The effect [of wit on the mind] is strong,--because it's odd, / Like fire electric from a clod; / Or when fix'd air puts out a light, / Tho' vital makes it blaze more bright."
Cowley's Ode on Wit, Paraphrased [from Juvenile Poems]
John Lees Courtenay, <u>Juvenile Poems</u> (London: J. Jones, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HlICAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>