...one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind of discordia concors • a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind oidiscordia concors \ a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature...

...endeavour ; they neither copied nature nor life, hence their thoughts are often new but seldom natural ; the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together, nature and art being ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; they failed, as might have been expected,...

...nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...ransacked for illustrations, comparisons and allusions. To many of these faults Cowley must certainly plead guilty, but the criticisms of the great Doctor...

...thoughts and words, or thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject." Dr. Johnson thought it "a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Richard BlackstOne conceived it as " a series of high and exalted ferments." Kant defines laughter...

...Johnson : "Wit may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of concordia discors, a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." The discovery that hydrogen and oxygen produce water, that potassium thrown in water produces flame,won]d...

...From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind ofdiscordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...may," he says, " be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." And in this respect Locke contrasts the poetry still agreeable to the taste of his age with the operations...

...endeavour ; they neither copied nature nor life, hence their thoughts are often new but seldom natural ; the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together, nature and art being ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; they failed, as might have been expected,...