 ... 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
 | 1823 - 406 страници
...not always the clearest judgement, or deepest reason.' For 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,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 страници
...not always the clearest judgement, or deepest reason.' For 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,... | |
 | 1824 - 284 страници
...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 - 1824 - 552 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 страници
...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 Mason Good - 1825 - 692 страници
...not always the clearest judgement or deepest reason. For 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,... | |
 | 1825 - 486 страници
...rank, wit in the thought. This has been defined by Mr. Locke,* "to lie in the assemblage of ideas; and putting those together, with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." With all due deference to Mr. Locke's authority, high as it undoubtedly is, on every subject to which... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 114 страници
...humanity. Potish'd wit bestows, 1. 309. Mr. Locke defines wit to consist of an assemblage of ideas, brought together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. To which Mr. Addison adds, that these must occasion surprise as well as delight ; Spectator, Vol. I.... | |
 | 1826 - 696 страници
...is only too true. Pcnzancc, July 1826. IIAKLEY. LACONICS. WIT lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein .can he found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take... | |
 | 1827 - 674 страници
...that he agrees with Locke, that " wit consists chiefly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them " together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures " and agreeable visions in the fancy." And he also agrees with Pope, that " an easy delivery as well as perfect conception," — and with... | |
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