 | 1851 - 486 páginas
...putting those tb'gethet-with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruitr, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. This definition of wit he places in opposition to judgment, which, he says, " lies quite on the other... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 páginas
...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,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 páginas
...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,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." The definition of Locke is sufficient for poetry, but it does not define wit or witticism ; but the... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 páginas
...ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 páginas
...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,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 páginas
...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,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy : judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating, carefully one from another,... | |
 | 1853 - 524 páginas
...lying most in the assemblage of ideas and putting those together with quickness and variety whereiu can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...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...make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in tho fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from... | |
 | 1853 - 756 páginas
...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 plt.-a.sant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 páginas
...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,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
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... thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled... 
