...not merely 'the assemblage of ideas. . . wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity', because 'every resemblance of ideas is not that which we call...wit, unless it be such an one that gives delight and surprise'.1 After that comes the perfection of Johnson, 'a kind of discordia concors, a combination...

...ignores the disapproving context of Locke's account (see pp. 616f. below) and adds the important rider that 'every Resemblance of Ideas is not that which we call Wit, unless it be such an one that g1ves Delight and Surprise to the Reader'. Addison notes also that not only the resemblance but the...

...the pun in the class of false wit. Of course he was at some pains to explain what true wit was: . . . every Resemblance of Ideas is not that which we call...Wit, unless it be such an one that gives Delight and Surprize to the Reader; These two Properties seem essential to Wit, more particularly the last of them....

...Locke, is restricting the meaning of "wit." After quoting Locke, Addison says, "I shall only add . . . That every Resemblance of Ideas is not that which...Wit, unless it be such an one that gives Delight and Surprize to the Reader: these two Properties seem essential to Wit, more particularly the last of them."...

...to have been a Punn. Joseph Addison, 10 May 1711, 'False Wit: Punning', The Spectator, no. 61 63:3 Every Resemblance of Ideas is not that which we call...Wit, unless it be such an one that gives Delight and Surprize to the Reader. Joseph Addison, 11 May 1711, True, False and Mixed Wit', The Spectator, no....

...print." To the same purpose another ingenious writer has observed upon Mr. Locke's description of wit, that every resemblance of ideas is not that which...it be such an one that gives delight and surprise. These two properties, he says, seem essential to wit, more particularly the latter of them. In order,...

...resemblance and congruity of ideas as this author maintains. I shall only add to it by way of explanation, that every resemblance of ideas is not that which we call wit, unless it be such an one as gives delight and surprise to the reader : these two properties seem essential to wit, more particularly...

...congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions to the fancy." Of this Addison says, "Every resemblance of ideas is not that which we call wit, unless it be such that gives delight and surprise to the reader. These two properties seem essential to wit, more particularly...