 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823 - 418 pages
...Addison, following Locke, who defines it " to lie 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 vi" sions in the fancy."* It may be defined more... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 380 pages
...clearest judgment or deepest reason : 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; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 552 pages
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason : 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 ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...That gives us back the image of our mind, 300 NOTES. " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great Philosopher,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 pages
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. — 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; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | 1824 - 284 pages
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. — 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; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...That gives us back the image of our mind, 300 NOTES. " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great Philosopher,... | |
 | 1825 - 486 pages
...thought. This has been defined by Mr. Locke,* "to lie 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." With all due deference to... | |
 | 1826 - 696 pages
...Pcnzancc, July 1826. IIAKLEY. LACONICS. WIT lies 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 ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | 1827 - 674 pages
...ascribes to his faculty of Wit. He represents Wit " as lying in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruily, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating... | |
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... 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... 
