...is not witty, but it becomes so when he adds that it is also as cold. Dr. Johnson defines wit as " a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike ;" and Dr. Campbell, in the " Philosophy of Rhetorick," as " that which excites agreeable surprise...

...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia сонcors; een wi' saut, saut tears, And sair and sick I pine,...weel, 'Twas then we twa did part ; Sweet time — sad subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes...

...quite admirable in its kind. He sums up their defects, and their merits, in two weighty sentences. "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...

...quite admirable in its kind. He sums up their defects, and their merits, in two weighty sentences. "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...

...effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes...

...effects upon the hearer, may be more vigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...subtilty surprises, but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account...

...life, and shall speedily be landed in the ocean of eternity." Johnson says that wit is " a discordia concors, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." Many have considered that humour consists of contrast or comparison, and it is true that a large portion...

...life, and shall speedily be landed in the ocean of eternity." Johnson says that wit is " a discordia concors, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." Many have considered that humour consists of contrast or comparison, and it is true that a large portion...

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

...a kind. From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind oidiscordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images or discovery...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...