 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 páginas
..." 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,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 páginas
...consider all as equally fallacious. 23. 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,... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 páginas
...opinions. — Tims, Locke has 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." The definition of Locke is... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 páginas
...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies 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." Thus does true wit, as this... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...extremely. — Penn. WIT AND JUDGMENT. — 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 tho fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 páginas
...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies 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." Thus does true wit, as this... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 páginas
...cotemporary with Dryden, defines " 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. This definition of wit he... | |
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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... 
