 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 384 Seiten
...to happiness of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though...upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical... | |
 | Great Britain. Scottish Education Department - 1903 - 964 Seiten
...following sentence : — If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though...upon its first production acknowledged to be just ; if it be that, which he that never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1905 - 742 Seiten
...sentence: If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at onoe natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is...upon its first production acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it wonder* how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical... | |
 | 1906 - 466 Seiten
...not " what oft was thought," for the shock they give proves that they are not mere platitudes, but " that which though not obvious is upon its first production acknowledged to be just." In style La Eochefoucauld's ideal is that of Balzac and the Pr&ieuses. He cultivated the art of writing... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1906 - 422 Seiten
...not " what oft was thought," for the shock they give proves that they are not mere platitudes, but " that which though not obvious is upon its first production acknowledged to be just." In style La Eochefoucauld's ideal is that of Balzac and the Pr&ieuses. He cultivated the art of writing... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 Seiten
...to happiness of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though...upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 Seiten
...limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. If that be considered as Wit which is at once natural and new, that which though...upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 Seiten
...language. [B]ya more noble and more adequate conception, that wit defined. [may] be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though...which he that never found it, wonders how he missed. . . . But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 Seiten
...XII. 138) M. II, 6. 139) Ra. 150, 103. l*0) BJ I, 454. 1«) Ra. 154. 142) L. I, 213. 143) L. I, 36. though not obvious is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just. Streng genommen ist Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, — a kind of discordiaconco... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 Seiten
...happiness of language. " If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though...upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical... | |
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If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just... 
