 | 1844 - 858 pages
...most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein eau bu found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Locke was manifestly aware that this did not wholly define wit ; for he says it lies most (not altogether)... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...judgment and memory. Id. Ib. vol.'iii. p. 251. OftheCurcnftheCuui. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully ideas one from another,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 242 pages
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...Barrow's particulars the face of a general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...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 - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...Barrow's particulars the face of a general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book ii., chap, x.) But the necessity of fetching congruity out of incongruity... | |
 | 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
...1~5) is closely related to the notions of Hobbes and Locke (". . . wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with 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
...whence it became a highly influential critical orthodoxy: Locke finds Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - Psychology - 1990 - 366 pages
...of the one do not necessarily have a great deal of the other. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from... | |
 | Richard H. Weisberg - Law - 1992 - 344 pages
...memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
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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... 
