| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...in the assemblage of ideas, r and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...thereby •' " to avoid being misled by similitude, ami bv affinity to take one thing for another. , \ This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pages
...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...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness uf ideas,... | |
| George Combe - 1837 - 740 pages
...ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resembla.net or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his... | |
| Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 pages
...on the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...and, by affinity, to take one thing for another."* P. 20. The Strange JVames, Sfc. Nothing can be more unreasonable than the complaints so frequently... | |
| 1838 - 478 pages
...most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," and says, " it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1987 - 568 pages
...Distinction of Right from Wrong; or as Mr. Lock hath more accurately describ'd it, "The separating carefully Ideas wherein can be found the least Difference, thereby...Similitude, and by Affinity to take one Thing for another."3 Yet if we examine the Actions of Men, we shall not be apt to conclude, that Nature hath... | |
| Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pages
...mostly in the assemblage of ideas. and [puts] those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity thereby to make...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 pages
...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 to the fancy. The latter he dismisses as " that entertainment and pleasantry ", whose " beauty appears... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...account of wit as the putting together, with quickness and variety, of those ideas 'wherein can be found any Resemblance or Congruity thereby to make...pleasant Pictures and agreeable Visions in the Fancy', but he ignores the disapproving context of Locke's account (see pp. 616f. below) and adds the important... | |
| Robert J. Sternberg - 1990 - 366 pages
...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 fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from... | |
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