 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...  Notes and Queries - Seite 301864Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...Nature to advantage dress'd ; #c.] This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...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 - 1822 - 436 Seiten
...to advantage dress'd ; <$-c.] This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,... | |
 | 1822 - 771 Seiten
...memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the as! semblage 肀 t "f 1822 9Published by Hickman and Hazzard. Willi anyi resemblance or congruity, ' thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in tho... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823
...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. But 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,... | |
 | John Locke - 1823
...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,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823
...thought, is that only which is taken notice of by Addison, following Locke, who defines it " to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and " putting those together,...thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable vi" sions in the fancy."* It may be defined more concisely, and perhaps more accurately, " A junction... | |
 | 1824
...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,... | |
 | John Locke - 1824
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1824
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...Something, whose truth 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,...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great Philosopher,... | |
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