... 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; judgment, on the contrary,... Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Seite 18von John Timbs - 1829 - 360 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Beattie - 1809 - 406 Seiten
...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:"* And I also agree with Pope, that " an easy delivery, as well as perfect " conception;" and with Dryden,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 Seiten
...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." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 Seiten
...putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable...similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 Seiten
...putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable...similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 Seiten
...ileasatit pictures, and agreeable visions in the ancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on he other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least diference, tJiereby to avoid bring misled by similiude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 Seiten
...a kind of wit, that if it deserves excuse it can claim no more. found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 Seiten
...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," Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 Seiten
...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," Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
| 1812 - 84 Seiten
...ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable...visions in the fancy. Judgment on the contrary lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby... | |
| John Locke - 1813 - 518 Seiten
...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 ; judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
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