 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pagina’s
...service in this respecl. Besides, wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and in putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; the writer, who aims at wit, must... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pagina’s
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason." 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pagina’s
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason." 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,... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pagina’s
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congniity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pagina’s
...that can any where be met with. "Wit," says he, "lies 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." Thus does true wit, as this... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pagina’s
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. 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,... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 pagina’s
...humanity. Polish'd wit bestous, 1. 309. Mr. Locke defines wit to consist of an assemblage of ideas, brought together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to makeup pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. To which Mr. Addison adds,... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pagina’s
...vritty.' Sir R. Blackmore calls it, ' a series of high and exalted ferments.' Mr. Locke's notion is, that it ' consists in putting those ideas together...congruity, in order to excite pleasure in the mind' — a definition that includes both eloquence and poetry. . ' Resemblance,' moreover, makes the definition... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pagina’s
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason : 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,... | |
 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 418 pagina’s
...distinguished faculties of wit and judgment j " 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,... | |
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... 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... 
