 | George Combe - 1842 - 524 pages
...definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...reason. ' For Tit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness «nd nobleness of the soul, as that its felicit and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating... | |
 | George Combe - 1843 - 522 pages
...definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or cmgruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...exemplification of it ' Wit,' says Locke, ' lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Locke was manifestly aware that this did not wholly define wit... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...vol.'iii. p. 251. OftheCurcnftheCuui. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book ii., chap, x.) But the necessity of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book ii. chap, x.) But the necessity of... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...never join'd before, Whence lively wit excites to gay surprise — * * Locke defines wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting these together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. "l If we inquire, upon what is founded the entertainment or pleasure which wit produces, I should answer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,... | |
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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... 
