... 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... A System of Phrenology - Page 295by George Combe - 1838 - 664 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...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 pages
...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...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...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...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...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... | |
| 1804 - 676 pages
...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...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...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...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - English poetry - 1804 - 364 pages
...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, that these... | |
| Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 418 pages
...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...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...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...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...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, (hereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.!/• /. ment. K 4 abl« able visions in the fancy;... | |
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