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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... "
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 59
1844
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Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning

Robert DeMaria - 1986 - 328 pages
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Swift

Nigel Wood - 1986 - 234 pages
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Vergleichung: Goethes Einführung in die Schreibweise Jean Pauls

Hendrik Birus - 1986 - 172 pages
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Dr. Johnson's Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His Dictionary

Samuel Johnson - 1986 - 328 pages
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Terms of Response: Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth ...

Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pages
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit [lies] mostly in the assemblage of ideas. and [puts] those together with quickness and variety, wherein...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....
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The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor

John Morreall - 1987 - 296 pages
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Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

W. J. T. Mitchell - 1987 - 244 pages
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Dublin's Joyce

Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 pages
...Machine of Lagado (1 1 1~5) is closely related to the notions of Hobbes and Locke (". . . wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance . . ."). On the Lagado machine, whenever there turn up " three or four words together that might make...
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Phantasia-imaginatio: V0 Colloquio internazionale, Roma 9-11 gennaio 1986

Marta Fattori, Massimo Bianchi - 1988 - 624 pages
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Sterne: Tristram Shandy

Wolfgang Iser - 1988 - 168 pages
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