 ... 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...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 821850Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...clearest Judgment, or deepest Reason. 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 : Judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...For I agree with Locke, that " Wit consists chiefly in the assem" Wage 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:"* And I also agree with... | |
 | James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...assemblage of ideas, * See Dr. Isaac Barrow's Second Sermon against evil speaking. 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; Judgment, on the contrary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies 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." Thus does true wit, as this... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason." 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 ileasatit pictures, and agreeable visions in the ancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 638 pages
...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies 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." Thus does true wit, as this... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 pages
...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies 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," Thus does true wit, as this... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...perceived than denned. According to Mr. Locke, wit lies 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 to the fancv. Mr. Addison limited this definition... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1814 - 632 pages
...clearest judgments, or deepest reason ; for wit lying most in the assemblage of idea?, 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. Judgment, on the contrary,... | |
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