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 Principles of Psychology - الصفحة 480بواسطة William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 704عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 282
...the first to discern in Barrow's particulars the face of a general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book ii., chap, x.) But the necessity of fetching congruity out of incongruity... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...the first to discern in Barrow's particulars the face of a general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book ii. chap, x.) But the necessity of fetching congruity out of incongruity... | |
| Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...and the putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found an assemblance and congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Here, however, the interpretation, though nearer the truth than the preceding one, is very erroneous... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...Nature to advantage dress'd, Sfc.] This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,... | |
| 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...Barrow's particulars (which have been enumerated) the face of a general proposition. He described wit as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any semblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy. But... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...gay surprise — * * Locke defines wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. "l If we inquire, upon what is founded the entertainment or pleasure which wit produces, I should answer... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest "judgment or deepest reason: for wit lying mostly in " the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...wherein can be found any " resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up plea" sant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; "judgment, on the contrary,... | |
| 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...sense is merely a synonym of ' imagination.' Locke, who was cotemporary with Dryden, defines ' wit' as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. This definition of wit he places in opposition to judgment, which he says ' lies quite on the other... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason : for wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
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