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 591844Full view - About this book
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| Hendrik Birus - 1986 - 172 pages
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| Samuel Johnson - 1986 - 328 pages
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| 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.... | |
| John Morreall - 1987 - 296 pages
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| 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... | |
| Wolfgang Iser - 1988 - 168 pages
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