... 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; judgment, on the contrary,... The Spectator, no. 1-314 - Страница 103по Joseph Addison - 1837Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 страници
...lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, icherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby...side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas icherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity,... | |
| Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 страници
...the discerning faculty. 1. с. chap. XI. a) 1. с. §. Z. Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas* and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side , in separating carefully , one from another,... | |
| George Combe - 1830 - 732 страници
...as "lying most in the assemblage of ideas wherein any resemblance can be found," he proceeds thus: " Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another f." Lord BACON says, that " the chief and (as it were)... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1830 - 88 страници
...and pat' ting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found the least difference or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures...other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideus wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1830 - 492 страници
...is taken notice of by Addison, following Locke, who defines it " to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together, with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* It may be defined more concisely, and perhaps more accurately, " A junction of things by distant and... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 страници
...of wit, in short, that can anywhere be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
| 1832 - 282 страници
...most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can oe found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
| 1834 - 392 страници
...denominated a faculty of the mind, has beea defined by Locke as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. " We shall make no farther attempt at a definition of this word, but leave that to our readers, and... | |
| 1836 - 1118 страници
...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...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
| John Locke - 1836 - 590 страници
...ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance _or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and, by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
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