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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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The Adventures of David Simple: Containing an Account of His Travels Through ...

Sarah Fielding - 1998 - 456 pages
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A Contradiction Still: Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope

Christa Knellwolf King - 1998 - 264 pages
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Selbstreflexion im Spiegel des Anderen: eine wirkungsgeschichtliche Studie ...

Irene Polke - 1999 - 428 pages
...Fähigkeit zur Verbindung von Ideen nützlich sein (Essay 2,1i,2 = Locke (1979) 8.156): «For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...
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Psychologically Speaking: A Book of Quotations

Kevin J. Connolly, Margaret Martlew - 1991 - 292 pages
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Studies in Criticism and Aest

Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pages
...and emphasize significant qualifications of Locke's account of wit. Locke had said that wit consists "in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 51 In the 1704 note Addison quotes Locke's observation and says, "Thus does True wit, as this incomparable...
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Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England

Richard A. Barney - 1999 - 442 pages
...fancy, and Locke declaims its inferiority when comparing it to the results of judgment: For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those...make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in Fancy: Judoment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...
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Franz Kafka: Form und Bedeutung : Formanalysen und Interpretationen von Vor ...

Hans Hiebel - 1999 - 292 pages
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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 48

1999 - 588 pages
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Literary Wit

Bruce Michelson - 2000 - 208 pages
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John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays

Paul Hammond, David Hopkins - 2000 - 434 pages
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