 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 стор.
...missed therrij wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they srere ever found. ItotWit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be...rigorously' and philosophically considered as a kind of dtsearetia cancan \ a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 стор.
...wit, according to Johnson's definition of that term, which agrees with its received acceptation: ' A combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.' At the same time, although it may appear from Burke's works., that he abounded in wit much more VOL.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 стор.
...he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. . , But Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer,...rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of £scordla cancan ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things... | |
 | 1850 - 806 стор.
...moreover, makes the definition too wide, and quickness of comparison too narrow. ' Wit,' says Johnson, ' is a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.' To which our author objects, that if it be true, the discovery of the resemblance between diamond and... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 стор.
...that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer,...philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 стор.
...that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer,...rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of dlscordia concurs; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 стор.
...that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer,...-occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 стор.
...that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what pcrverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer,...philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 стор.
...that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer,...philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 стор.
..." a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction:" and wit, " a combination of dissimilar images; or discovery of...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." The object of the poets of the metaphysical race, he states to be, to excite surprise, and not delight... | |
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But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. 
