 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...  The Spectator - Page 1031853 - 742 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...follow : ' And hence, perhaps, may be given some reason of that common observation, " That men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...follow: ' And hence, perhaps, may be given some reason of that common observation, " That men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pages
...follow : ' And hence, perhaps, may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories, have not...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congniity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...follow: ' And hence, perhaps, may be given some reason of that common observation, That men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...has given us the best account of wit, in short, that can any where be met with. "Wit," says he, "lies in the, assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...another. And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men, who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...another. And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men, who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, (hereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.!/• /. ment. K 4 abl« able visions in the fancy;... | |
 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 418 pages
...following famous passage in Locke, where he marks the distinguished faculties of wit and judgment j " Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...another. And hence, perhaps, may be given some reason of that common observation,— That men who have a great deal of Wit, and prompt Memories, have not...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the Fancy : Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 pages
...perspicuous, and natural language. For I agree with Locke, that " Wit consists chiefly in the assem" Wage of ideas, and putting those together with " quickness...any resemblance or congruity, thereby to " make up pleasant pictures and agreeable " visions in the fancy:"* And I also agree with Pope, that " an easy... | |
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