... 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
| Spectator The - 1853 - 596 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... | |
| 1853 - 524 страници
...lying most in the assemblage of ideas and putting those together with quickness and variety whereiu can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity j to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1853 - 544 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,...and agreeable visions in the fancy : judgment, on Dressed she is beautiful, undressed she is Beauty's self. « By Addison, dated, perhaps from Chelsea.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 страници
...wit, in short, that can any where 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,... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...wit defined by Addison in the sixty-second Spectator: 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... | |
| Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 страници
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit [lies] mostly in the assemblage of ideas. and [puts] those together with quickness and variety, wherein...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 7 These remarks are part of a passage 6. I do not mean to suggest that the topic is a trivial one.... | |
| Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 страници
...affinity to take one thing for another, and the monkey-work of Wit, lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety...to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions to the fancy. The latter he dismisses as " that entertainment and pleasantry ", whose " beauty appears... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 страници
...became a highly influential critical orthodoxy: Locke finds 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. (£ssay, „ If, p Ij6)1, 18 The Life and Opinions of... | |
| Robert J. Sternberg - 1990 - 366 страници
...one do not necessarily have a great deal of the other. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from... | |
| Richard H. Weisberg - 1992 - 344 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,...separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy.86... | |
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