 | 1824 - 284 páginas
...have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. — For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 552 páginas
...memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 páginas
...convinc'd at sight we find. That gives us back the image of our mind, 300 NOTES. " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great Philosopher,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind, 300 NOTES. " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great Philosopher,... | |
 | 1825 - 486 páginas
...and first in rank, wit in the thought. This has been defined by Mr. Locke,* "to lie in the assemblage of ideas; and putting those together, with quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." With all due deference to Mr. Locke's authority, high as it undoubtedly is, on every subject to which... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 114 páginas
...humanity. Potish'd wit bestows, 1. 309. Mr. Locke defines wit to consist of an assemblage of ideas, brought together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. To which Mr. Addison adds, that these must occasion surprise as well as delight ; Spectator, Vol. I.... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 páginas
...ideas, and in putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any semblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. It is a junction of things by distant and fanciful relations, which surprise because they are tinex*... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 páginas
...first in rank, wit in the thought. This has been defined by Mr. .Locke,* "to lie in the assemblage of ideas; and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be round any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the... | |
 | 1826 - 696 páginas
...here related is only too true. Pcnzancc, July 1826. IIAKLEY. LACONICS. WIT lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
 | 1827 - 674 páginas
...which the Phrenologist ascribes to his faculty of Wit. He represents Wit " as lying in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruily, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating... | |
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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... 
