 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 psl.
...at doing him a service in this respecl. Besides, wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and in putting those together with quickness and variety,...wherein can be found any resemblance, or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; the writer, who aims at wit, must... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 psl.
...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,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 psl.
...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,... | |
 | 1803 - 434 psl.
...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...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congniity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the... | |
 | 1804 - 676 psl.
...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 ideas... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 psl.
...humanity. Polish'd wit bestous, 1. 309. Mr. Locke defines wit to consist of an assemblage of ideas, brought together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to makeup pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. To which Mr. Addison adds, that these... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 psl.
...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,... | |
 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 418 psl.
...where he marks the distinguished faculties of wit and judgment j " 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,... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 psl.
...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...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, (hereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.!/ /. ment. K 4 abl« able visions in the fancy;... | |
 | 1850 - 806 psl.
...series of high and exalted ferments.' Mr. Locke's notion is, that it ' consists in putting those ideas together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, in order to excite pleasure in the mind' a definition that includes both eloquence and poetry.... | |
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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... 
