 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
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...given us tlie best account of wit in short that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, whereцп can be found any resemblance or congiuity, thereby to makf up pleasant pictures and agreeable... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 638 pages
...gi/en us the best account of wit, in short, that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 540 pages
...given us the best account of wit, in short, that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up ileasatit pictures, and agreeable visions in the ancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on he... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 pages
...Echo is a speaker ; but it is so mean a kind of wit, that if it deserves excuse it can claim no more. 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 of ideas,... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pages
...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgement, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...certain thoughts and expressions, mucheasicr perceived than denned. According to Mr. Locke, wit lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions to the fancv. Mr. Addison limited this definition considerably, by observing;, that every resemblance... | |
 | 1814 - 632 pages
...not always the clearest judgments, or deepest reason ; for wit lying most in the assemblage of idea?, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas... | |
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