keenwitted

Updated: May 17, 2025

So weak a man as Penn, wishing to find Jacobites every where, and prone to believe whatever he wished, might easily put an erroneous construction on invectives such as the haughty and irritable Devonshire was but too ready to utter, and on sarcasms such as, in moments of spleen, dropped but too easily from the lips of the keenwitted Dorset.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4