 ... 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
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 страници
...particulars the face of a general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book ii., chap, x.) But the necessity of fetching congruity out of incongruity... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 страници
...quickness and variety wherein can be found any " resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up plea" sant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; "judgment,...— 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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 страници
...and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. 23. Wit lies 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. 24. Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 страници
...those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 страници
...those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...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... | |
 | 1850 - 600 страници
...imagination.' Locke, who was cotemporary with Dryden, defines ' wit' as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. This definition of wit he places in opposition to judgment, which he says ' lies quite on the other... | |
 | 1851 - 486 страници
...visions in the fancy. This definition of wit he places in opposition to judgment, which, he says, " lies quite on the other side," in separating carefully...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another Addison quotes this passage in the "Spectator" and says:—... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 страници
...the manifold opinions. — Tims, Locke has described wit " as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." The definition of Locke is sufficient for poetry, but it does not define wit or witticism ; but the... | |
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