 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Comic, The - 1852 - 206 pages
...their functions ? We may notice some of the manifold opinions. — Tims, Locke has described wit " as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." The definition of Locke is sufficient for poetry, but it does not define wit or witticism ; but the... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...Brevity is the soul of wit. Wit is folly, unless a wise man has the keeping of it. Locke. Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1853 - 544 pages
...That men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the assemblage...and agreeable visions in the fancy : judgment, on Dressed she is beautiful, undressed she is Beauty's self. « By Addison, dated, perhaps from Chelsea.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...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...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...that wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely. — Penn. WIT AND JUDGMENT. — Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in tho fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from... | |
 | 1853 - 756 pages
...That men who hare a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason.' For wit lying most in the assemblage...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up plt.-a.sant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit [lies] mostly in the assemblage of ideas. and [puts] those together with quickness and variety, wherein...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 7 These remarks are part of a passage 6. I do not mean to suggest that the topic is a trivial one.... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 404 pages
...Thinking Machine of Lagado (1 1 1~5) is closely related to the notions of Hobbes and Locke (". . . wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance . . ."). On the Lagado machine, whenever there turn up " three or four words together that might make... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...approves of Locke's account of wit as the putting together, with quickness and variety, of those ideas 'wherein can be found any Resemblance or Congruity...pleasant Pictures and agreeable Visions in the Fancy', but he ignores the disapproving context of Locke's account (see pp. 616f. below) and adds the important... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - Psychology - 1990 - 366 pages
...suggested that people who have a great deal of the one do not necessarily have a great deal of the other. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from... | |
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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... 
