 | 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 стор.
...the hearer, may be more rigorously' and philosophically considered as a kind of dtsearetia cancan \ a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently ijniikc. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than eriough. The most het«ro»ciyxras ideas are yoked... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 стор.
...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of £scordla cancan ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ;... | |
 | 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.
...perverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 стор.
...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of dlscordia concurs; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defmed, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 стор.
...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concurs ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 стор.
...perverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, ; may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as...things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 стор.
...pcrverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ;... | |
 | 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. 
