thin-witted

Updated: May 7, 2025

Nevertheless even the thin-witted and the dry-witted had to acknowledge the powerful beauty of many chapters and passages, rich with humor, eloquence, poetry, deep-hearted tenderness, or passionate scorn. Carlyle was a voracious reader, and the plunder of whole literatures is strewn over his pages.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson