 | charles black - 1850 - Liczba stron: 630
...Johnson, " may be more rigorously and philosophi" cally considered as a kind of concordia discors,—a combination of " dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things " apparently unlike;" but, if this be true, then the discovery of the resemblance between diamond and charcoal, between acidification... | |
 | 1851 - Liczba stron: 486
...a fanciful or wliimsical i£.tur?. Dr. Johnson describes wit •' as a kind of concora'iu ditcoun ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently un like ;" which Leigh Hunt, in his essay oi Wit and Humour, amplifies into "the srW trary juxtaposition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Liczba stron: 468
...philosophically considered as a Tdnd of fci <v*<.-.»r»; a combination of dissimilar images, or disT of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike....are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allustoos : their leamirur instructs, and their subtility surprises ; bu: :;-.e reader cvmmouly thinks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Liczba stron: 472
...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of (eZiwwdi'a ccmcors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. J'ho a^gt heterogeneous ideas are (yoked by violence together; nature " and art are ransacked for^illustrations,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Liczba stron: 346
...effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - Liczba stron: 608
...recorded in a characteristic sentence in his criticism of Cowley. " Wit," he says, " is a discordia concors — a combination of dissimilar images or...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike" — an admirable definition of the term in its modern and restricted sense, and one which also includes... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - Liczba stron: 296
...Johnson, u may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of concordia discors — a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike ;" but if this be true, then the discovery of the resemblance between diamond and charcoal, between... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - Liczba stron: 268
...ideas of a fanciful or whimsical nature. Dr. Johnson describes wit " as a kind of concordia discours ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike ; " which Leigh Hunt, in his essay on wit and humor, amplifies into "the arbitrary juxtaposition of... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - Liczba stron: 240
...abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - Liczba stron: 516
...effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances* in things apparently unlike." Thus, of Bacon, it is remarked by Mr. Craik, that the characteristic of his writing is pre-eminently... | |
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... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. 
