...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason: for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, (hereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.!/• /. ment. K 4 abl« able visions in the fancy;...

...series of high and exalted ferments.' Mr. Locke's notion is, that it ' consists in putting those ideas together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, in order to excite pleasure in the mind' — a definition that includes both eloquence and poetry....

...Wit, and prompt Memories, have not always the clearest Judgment, or deepest Reason. For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the Fancy : Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another...

...perspicuous, and natural language. For I agree with Locke, that " Wit consists chiefly in the assem" Wage of ideas, and putting those together with " quickness...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,...

...lying most in the assemblage of ideas, * See Dr. Isaac Barrow's Second Sermon against evil speaking. and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; Judgment, on the contrary (says he) lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from...

...doing him a service in this respect. _ Besides, ivit, lying mostly in the assemblage- of ideas, and in putting those together with quickness and variety,...wherein can be found any resemblance, or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; the writer, who aims at wit, must...

...Understanding, has given us the best account of wit in short that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...pleasant .pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,...

...lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those tojrether with quickness and variety, where* ifi can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable vision* in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist...

...Understanding, has given us tlie best account of wit in short that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, whereцп can be found any resemblance or congiuity, thereby to makf up pleasant pictures and agreeable...

...has given us the best account of wit, in short, that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,...