...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia сипcors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes...

...quite admirable in its kind. He sums up their defects, and their merits, in two weighty sentences. "The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes...

...effects upon the hearer, may be more vigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises, but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes...

...life, and shall speedily be landed in the ocean of eternity." Johnson says that wit is " a discordia concors, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." Many have considered that humour consists of contrast or comparison, and it is true that a large portion...

...life, and shall speedily be landed in the ocean of eternity." Johnson says that wit is " a discordia concors, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." Many have considered that humour consists of contrast or comparison, and it is true that a large portion...

...a kind. From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind nfdiscordia concors ; •a combination of dissimilar images or...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas arc yoked by violence...

...a kind. From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind oidiscordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images or discovery...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...a kind. From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind ofdiscordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images or discovery...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...effect upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they [the metaphysical poets] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...As for the remainder, though it is not science, it is a thing no less valid or rare — it is wit, "a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." When we are shown that the circumstances of Pope's giddy and glittering Augustan belle have something...