...he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises, but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes...

...combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblance's in things apparently unlike. . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions."19 Remarkably, uneasiness about Li He's poetry in the Chinese tradition echoes what Johnson...

...Catholic and the true Protestant. Metaphysical poetry, which Johnson described "as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike," seemed to him "not successful in representing or moving the emotions" because it lacked "uniformity...

...home in the composition of literature. Samuel Johnson observed that the metaphysical poets relied upon 'a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike'. He continues: 'The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked...

...concors. Indeed Gibbon conspicuously alludes to Samuel Johnson's critique of metaphysical poetry, that "the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions." 24 For Gibbon, theology and its propensity for frolicking in the multiple connotations of the material...

...centuries ago. There is a straight line from his description of metaphysical wit as "a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike" ("Cowley," Lives 1:20) to Coleridge's equally memorable statement that the imagination "reveals itself...

...considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or a discovery ofoccult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit,...enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by tiolence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons and allusions; their...

...neither are they just.' In particular he objected to the frequency of a 'conceit', which he defined. 'The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...instructs, and their subtilty surprises; but the reader, . . . though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased' - because the reader is not shown 'truth' by...

...Gracian's theory of Dr Johnson's more venerable definition of wit (1905: I.20) as 'a kind of discordia concors' — a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparendy unlike' — than Woods is happy to admit.2 Perhaps one should start out from two of Gracian's...

...effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind ofdiscordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike, (para. 56) This is not a definition of all wit, but particularly of that pertaining to Donne, a manner...