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... Wit and Humor - Seite 4von Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 Seiten
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lyin^j most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lieз quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another... | |
| John Locke - 1836 - 590 Seiten
...deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance _or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions, in the fancy: judgment,... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 364 Seiten
...men who have a great deal of wit have not always the clearest judgment or the deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can he found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 530 Seiten
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to quote chiefly as an instance of our author's power of imagination, is as follows. In speaking of the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 Seiten
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to quote chiefly as an instance of our "author's power of imagination, is as follows. In speaking of the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 Seiten
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to quote chiefly as an instance of our author's power of imagination, is as follows. In speaking of the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 Seiten
...given us the best account of wit, in abort, that can any where be met with. " Wit," saya he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness uf ideas,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 Seiten
...always the clearest judgment or deepest reason.' For •wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, r and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating «carefully one from another,... | |
| George Combe - 1837 - 740 Seiten
...ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resembla.net or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his... | |
| Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 Seiten
...considered these faculties as the characteristics respectively of wit and judgment. " Wit lying most on 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,... | |
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