| 1850 - 806 lehte
...series of high and exalted ferments.' Mr. Locke's notion is, that it ' consists in putting those ideas together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, in order to excite pleasure in the mind' — a definition that includes both eloquence and poetry.... | |
| John Locke - 1808 - 346 lehte
...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 together...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the Fancy : Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another... | |
| James Beattie - 1809 - 406 lehte
...perspicuous, and natural language. For I agree with Locke, that " Wit consists chiefly in the assem" Wage of ideas, and putting those together with " quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable " visions in the fancy:"* And I also agree with Pope, that " an easy delivery, as well as perfect " conception;" and with Dryden,... | |
| James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 lehte
...lying most in the assemblage of ideas, * See Dr. Isaac Barrow's Second Sermon against evil speaking. and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; Judgment, on the contrary (says he) lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 lehte
...doing him a service in this respect. _ Besides, ivit, lying mostly in the assemblage- of ideas, and in putting those together with quickness and variety,...wherein can be found any resemblance, or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; the writer, who aims at wit, must... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 lehte
...deserves excuse, it can claim no DIO«1. Mr. Locke, in his Essay on Human Understanding, has given us tlie best account of wit in short that can any where be...putting those together with quickness and variety, whereцп can be found any resemblance or congiuity, thereby to makf up pleasant pictures and agreeable... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 lehte
...lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those tojrether with quickness and variety, where* ifi can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable vision* in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 lehte
...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 together...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 - 508 lehte
...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 together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 lehte
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...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... | |
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