 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 sidor
...service in this respecl. Besides, wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and in putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; the writer, who aims at wit, must... | |
 | 1803 - 434 sidor
...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 congniity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 sidor
...humanity. Polish'd wit bestous, 1. 309. Mr. Locke defines wit to consist of an assemblage of ideas, brought together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to makeup pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. To which Mr. Addison adds, that these... | |
 | 1850 - 806 sidor
...series of high and exalted ferments.' Mr. Locke's notion is, that it ' consists in putting those ideas together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, in order to excite pleasure in the mind' — a definition that includes both eloquence and poetry.... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 sidor
...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, (hereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.!/• /. ment. K 4 abl« able visions in the fancy;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 sidor
...service in this respect. _ Besides, ivit, lying mostly in the assemblage- of ideas, and in putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; the writer, who aims at wit, must... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 sidor
...lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those tojrether with quickness and variety, where* ifi can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable vision* in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 sidor
...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 ileasatit pictures, and agreeable visions in the ancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on he... | |
 | 1812 - 84 sidor
...S 10. Discerning is the perception of two ideas to be the —~ie or different. C 11. S l. Wit lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together...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... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 sidor
...perceived than denned. According to Mr. Locke, wit lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions to the fancv. Mr. Addison limited this definition considerably, by observing;, that every resemblance... | |
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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 agree.. able visions in the fancy... 
