 | Charles Richardson - 1856 - 952 pàgines
...determine, to discern, to distinguish. " 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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pàgines
...coach with the duke of . Bruyere. XCIIL Wit 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 ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1857 - 612 pàgines
...unaccustomed to the careful observation of mental phenomena. Mr. Locke's definition of wit is to this effect, that it consists in "putting those ideas together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." This, it has been justly... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pàgines
...clearest judgment or deepest reason.' Fot wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or cungruily, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...Addison in the sixty-second Spectator: 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,... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 pàgines
...thing for another, and the monkey-work of 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 to the fancy. The latter he dismisses as... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pàgines
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit [lies] mostly in the assemblage of ideas. and [puts] 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." 7 These remarks are part... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pàgines
...influential critical orthodoxy: Locke finds 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,... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - 1990 - 366 pàgines
...necessarily have a great deal of the other. 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 fancies; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Richard H. Weisberg - 1992 - 344 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,... | |
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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... 
