 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - Liczba stron: 508
...deal 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...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 - Liczba stron: 638
...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 - Liczba stron: 540
...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 - Liczba stron: 802
...deal 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...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 - Liczba stron: 354
...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,... | |
 | 1812 - Liczba stron: 84
...ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. Judgment on the contrary lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas, wherein can be found... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - Liczba stron: 518
...deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgement, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...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 - Liczba stron: 482
...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 - Liczba stron: 632
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - Liczba stron: 528
...!n.-ti .i im<. of . 'i 1 1. ,: , rim: stated in the preceding Sect ton. I. to Locke, Wit consist » ,, in the assemblage " of ideas ; and putting those together with quickness and ',' variety, wherein can be fount! any resemblance or congru" in ." I would add to this definition, (rather by way of explanation... | |
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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... 
