 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pages
...thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite " contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein, for the " most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...of " wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and there" fore is so acceptable to all people, — because its beauty " appears at first sight, and there... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...affinity to take one thing for another. Addison quotes this passage in the Spectator, and says : ' This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I ever met with of wit, which generally, though not always, consists in such a resemblance and congruity... | |
 | 1851 - 486 pages
...affinity to take one thing for another Addison quotes this passage in the "Spectator" and says:— "This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I ever met with of wit, which generally, though not always, consists in such a resemblance and congruity... | |
 | 1853 - 756 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...•which generally, though not always, consists in snch a resemblance and congruity of ideas as this author mentions. I shall only add to it, by way of... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' This If, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit, which generally,... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pages
...proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and. allusion; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment uud pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the...fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people." rather to fill the mind with great conceptions, than to divert it with such as are new and surprising,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...such a resemblance and congruity of ideas as this au. thor mentions. I shall only add to it. by way of explanation, that every resemblance of ideas is... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...on the fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.1 This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit,... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people — because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry...of wit. which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required... | |
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This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people... 
