... 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
| George Combe - 1838 - 736 страници
...definition of Wit. Locke describes Wit as "lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his... | |
| 1838 - 478 страници
...reflect on and observe in itself," that it lies " most 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 says, " it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 812 страници
...putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereb) to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.' Let us... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 страници
...reason. ' For Tit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness «nd nobleness of the soul, as that its felicit and bv affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
| George Combe - 1842 - 524 страници
...This leads me to a definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his... | |
| 1844 - 878 страници
...have found a correct exemplification of it ' Wit,' says Locke, ' lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Locke was manifestly aware that this did not wholly define wit ; for he says it lies most (not altogether)... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 страници
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude. and by affinity to take one thing for another." (Essay, vol. i, p. 143.) This definition, such as it... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 246 страници
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...from another ideas wherein can be found the least diiference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another."... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 страници
...memory. Id. Ib. vol.'iii. p. 251. OftheCurcnftheCuui. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully ideas one from another, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 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... | |
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