 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - Liczba stron: 516
...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concerts; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances* in things apparently unlike." Among modern,definitions of Wit, that by Mr. Leigh Hunt is one of the most noticeable and elaborate.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - Liczba stron: 418
...mgy bejnore rjgorous^and philosophically sonsidered as a kind ofjtiscor3ia co)ujors]^& ccmtimation of dissimilar images ? or discovery, of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike,. Of witi tjfius_dofined, they have more than enough. The most"Keterogeiieous ideas are yoked by violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - Liczba stron: 460
...concurs, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in » Essay on Criticism. things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 496
...wonders by what perversity of industry they were ever found. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations,...and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises, but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought. They were not successful... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - Liczba stron: 182
...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concurs; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances, in things apparently unlike To the comparison of a man that travels and a wife that stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - Liczba stron: 180
...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discardia cancars ; л combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances, in things apparently unlike. .... To the comparison of a man that travels and a wife that stays at home, with a pair of compasses,... | |
 | 1877 - Liczba stron: 688
...us that wit maybe 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.' Poor dear Dr. Johnson ! What a storm in a teacup ! We hope our readers now thoroughly understand what... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1872 - Liczba stron: 722
...is not witty, but it becomes so when he adds that it is also as cold. Dr. Johnson defines wit as « a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike ;' and Dr. Campbell, in the ' Philosophy of Rhetoric,' as 'that which excites agreeable surprise in... | |
 | William Minto - 1872 - Liczba stron: 678
...fuller licence to his ingenuity. Describing the style of the " metaphysical poets," Johnson says— " The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises :' and among the metaphysical poets he considers Cowley to be " undoubtedly the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - Liczba stron: 826
...is not witty, but it becomes so when he adds that it is also as cold. Dr. Johnson defines wit as " a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike ;" and Dr. Campbell, in the " Philosophy of Rhetorick," as " that which excites agreeable surprise... | |
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... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. 
