C.

[Footnote 1: 'Essay concerning Human Understanding', Bk II. ch. II (p.

68 of ed. 1690; the first).]

[Footonote 2:

'If Wit has truly been defined as a Propriety of Thoughts and Words,

then that definition will extend to all sorts of Poetry... Propriety

of Thought is that Fancy which arises naturally from the Subject, or

which the Poet adapts to it. Propriety of Words is the cloathing of

these Thoughts with such Expressions as are naturally proper to them.'

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