 | William James - 1890 - 716 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, so acceptable to all people because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 720 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 OB the fancy, and therefore, so acceptable to all people because its beauty appears at first sight,... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 392 pages
...proceeding quite contrary to Metaphor and Allusion i wherein, for the most Part, lies that Enter" tainment and Pleasantry of Wit which strikes so lively on the...Fancy) and is therefore so acceptable to all People, As true Wit generally consists in this Resemblance and Congruity Congruity of Ideas, false Wit chiefly... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 490 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...fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' l This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit, which... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 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...met with of wit, which generally, though not always, I—3 consists in such a resemblance and congruity of ideas as this author mentions. I shall only add... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
..."is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein for the most part lies the entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes...fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people." Aiming persistently at the discovery of subtle resemblances, and the combination of contrary images,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 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...ever met with of wit, which generally, though not alwavs. /— 3 consists in such a resemblance and congruity of ideas as this author mentions. I shall... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein f no doubt to Heaven ; for his dying eyes were lifted up — a strong convul nut always, consists in such a resemblance and congruity of ideas as this author mentions. I shall... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 424 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 so acceptable to all people; because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 382 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 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... 
