 | 1844 - 878 pàgines
...exemplification of it ' Wit,' says Locke, ' lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Locke was manifestly aware... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pàgines
...vol.'iii. p. 251. OftheCurcnftheCuui. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pàgines
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pàgines
...general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pàgines
...general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pàgines
...gay surprise — * * Locke defines wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. "l If we inquire, upon what is founded the entertainment or pleasure which wit produces, I should answer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pàgines
...is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pàgines
...clearest "judgment or deepest reason: for wit lying mostly in " the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together " with quickness and variety wherein can be found any " resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up plea" sant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; "judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pàgines
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 910 pàgines
...Oft thought before, but ne'er so well exprest.' and the " Funeral Orations" of Bossuet, are witty.' Sir R. Blackmore calls it, ' a series of high and...Resemblance,* moreover, makes the definition too wide, and quitkness of comparison too narrow. ' Wit,' says Johnson, ' is a combination ot' dissimilar images,... | |
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... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy... 
