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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; judgment, on the contrary,... "
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 143
by John Locke - 1806
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The Works of John Locke, Esq, Volume 1

John Locke - 1722 - 640 pages
...in the aflemblagtt oi Ideas, and putting thofe together with quicknefs and variety, wherein can lJ£ found any refemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleafant Pictures, and agreeable Vifions in the Fancy i Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other fide, in feparating carefully one from another,...
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Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...drefs'd, etc.] This definition is very exa£t. Mr. Lode had defined If it to confift " in the afiemblage of ideas, and putting thofe " together, with quicknefs...wherein can be " found any refemblance or congruity, whereby to make " up pleafant piftures and agreeable vifions in the fancy." But that great Philofopher,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1760 - 314 pages
...drefs'd, etc.} This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined Wit to confift '* in the aflemblage of ideas, and putting thofe together, " with quicknefs and variety, wherein can be found any re*' femblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleafant pic" tures and agreeable viilons in the fancy."...
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The tempest. A midsummer-night's dream. The two gentlemen of Verona. The ...

William Shakespeare - 1762 - 460 pages
...doing him a Service in this Refpecl. Befides, IVit lying moftly in the AfTemblage of Jdtai, and in the putting thofe together with Quicknefs and Variety,...wherein can be found, any Refemblance, or Congruity, to makeup pleafant Pictures, and agreeable Vifions in the Fancy ; the Writer, who aims at Wit, muft...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 480 pages
...ting thofe together with quicknefs and " variety, wherein can be found any refemH 2 " blance " blance or congruity, thereby to make up " pleafant pictures and agreeable vifions in " the fancy*." It maybe defined more curtly, and perhaps more accurately, " A " junction of things by diitant and...
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Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II].

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 534 pages
...following Locke, who defines it «' to lie in the « aflemblage of ideas ; and putting thofe toge" ther, with quicknefs and variety, wherein can be " found...thereby " to make up pleafant pictures and agreeable vi« fions in the fancy *." It may be defined more curtly, and perhaps more accurately, " A junc" tion...
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Preface. Poems on several occasions. An essay on Virgil's Georgics

Joseph Addison - 1765 - 378 pages
...fhort, that can any where be met with. Wit* fays he, lies in the aflemblage of ideas, and putting rhofe together with quicknefs and variety, wherein can be...pleafant pictures and agreeable vifions in the fancy. Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author obferves, generally confift in the likenefs of ideas,...
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The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1767 - 488 pages
...doing him a fervice in this refpecl:. Befides, Wit lying moftly in the afiemblage of Ideas, and in the putting thofe together with quicknefs and variety,...wherein can be found any refemblance, or congruity, to make up pleafant pictures, and agreeable vifions in the fancy ; the t writer, writer, who alms at...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: In Four Books, Volume 1

John Locke - 1768 - 418 pages
...Memories, have not always the cleared Judgment, or deepeft Reafon. For Wit lying mo ft , in the Aflemblage of Ideas, and putting thofe together with • Quicknefs and Variety, wherein can be found any Rirfemblance \ or Congruity, thereby to make up pleafant Pictures, and agreeable Vifions in the Fancy;...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...doing him a Service in this Refpect. Befides, Wit lying moftly in the Afiemblage of Ideas, and in the putting Thofe together with Quicknefs and Variety, wherein can be found any Kefemblance, or Congruity, to make up pleafant Pictures, and agreeable Viiions in the Fancy ; the Writer,...
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