 | 1853 - Liczba stron: 756
...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 plt.-a.sant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1853 - Liczba stron: 542
...who defines it "to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together, with quickness nnd variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* It may be defined more concisely, and perhaps more accurately,... | |
 | 1853 - Liczba stron: 524
...lying most in the assemblage of ideas and putting those together with quickness and variety whereiu can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - Liczba stron: 268
...cotemporary with Dryden, defines " wit " as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. This definition of wit he places in opposition to judgment, which... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - Liczba stron: 584
...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...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - Liczba stron: 229
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit [lies] mostly in the assemblage of ideas. and [puts] those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 7 These remarks are part of a passage 6. I do not mean to suggest... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - 1987 - Liczba stron: 404
...thing for another, and the monkey-work of Wit, lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions to the fancy. The latter he dismisses as " that entertainment and pleasantry... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - Liczba stron: 978
...influential critical orthodoxy: Locke finds Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - 1990 - Liczba stron: 366
...necessarily have a great deal of the other. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus - 1991 - Liczba stron: 302
...well served by a definition in Locke's Essay concerning human understanding (1694): 'Wit [lies] most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety.' (Translator's note.) ' (Leipzig, '1751; repr. Darmstadt, 1962), 102. 2 J. Schmidt, Die Geschichte des... | |
| |
... 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... 
