 | Joseph Addison - 1765 - 378 страници
...can be found any rrfcmblance or congruity, thereby to make up plea&nt pictures and agreeable vifions in the fancy. Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally confifl: in the likenefs of ideas, and is more or lefs wir, as this likenefs in ideas is more furprifing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 страници
...at doing him a 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 страници
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 страници
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on... | |
 | 1803 - 434 страници
...and prompt memories, have not always. the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...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... | |
 | 1803 - 420 страници
...prompt memories, have not always ' the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit • lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting ' those together with quickness and variety, vvhere' in can be found any resemblance or congruity, thero ' by to rffeke up pleasant pictures and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 страници
...from herself in Ovid, that the goddess is quite lost in the old woman. FAB. V. • P. 155. 1. 9. She can't begin, &c.] If playing on words be excusable...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... | |
 | 1804 - 676 страници
...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...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... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 страници
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 страници
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...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... | |
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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... 
