| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 páginas
...Echo is a speaker ; but it is so mean a kind of wit, that if it deserves excuse it can claim no more. found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgement, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 páginas
...certain thoughts and expressions, mucheasicr perceived than denned. According to Mr. Locke, wit lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions to the fancv. Mr. Addison limited this definition considerably, by observing;, that every resemblance... | |
| 1814 - 632 páginas
...not always the clearest judgments, or deepest reason ; for wit lying most in the assemblage of idea?, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 páginas
...!n.-ti .i im<. of . 'i 1 1. ,: , rim: stated in the preceding Sect ton. I. to Locke, Wit consist » ,, in the assemblage " of ideas ; and putting those together with quickness and ',' variety, wherein can be fount! any resemblance or congru" in ." I would add to this definition, (rather by way of explanation... | |
| John Locke - 1815 - 454 páginas
...a great 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...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruUy, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, H 4 and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment,... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 páginas
...great 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...on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separat. * How heautiful sheflooks when drest! But view her freed from this disguise, Stript of th'... | |
| John Locke - 1817 - 556 páginas
...great 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...congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.. able visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating... | |
| 1829 - 612 páginas
...thought, and wit in the word. And fiist, wit in the thought : this has been denned by Mr. Locke, ' to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together,...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the faucy.' With ail due deference 10 Mr. Locke's authority, high as it undoubtedly is, on every subject... | |
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