 ... 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...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Sida 821850Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 sidor
...not always the greatest judgment; for wit lying chiefly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating carefully... | |
 | 1834 - 392 sidor
...of the mind, has beea defined by Locke 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. " We shall make no farther... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 530 sidor
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to quote chiefly as an instance of our author's power of imagination, is as follows. In speaking... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 sidor
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to quote chiefly as an instance of our author's power of imagination, is as follows. In speaking... | |
 | 1836 - 932 sidor
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. ' For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those united together by their common interest. Almost every degree produces something peculi thereby to make np pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 sidor
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to quote chiefly as an instance of our "author's power of imagination, is as follows. In speaking... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 sidor
...judgment or deepest reason.' For •wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, r 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,... | |
 | 1838 - 478 sidor
...reflect on and observe in itself," that it lies " most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them 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," and says, " it is a kind... | |
 | George Combe - 1838 - 736 sidor
...definition of Wit. Locke describes Wit as "lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these 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.*" Now, it may be demonstrated,... | |
 | Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 sidor
...characteristics respectively of wit and judgment. " Wit lying most on 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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