...human understanding observes, on the contrary, that " wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and the putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found an assemblance and congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."...

...This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety,...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,...

...gay surprise — * * Locke defines wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. "l If we inquire, upon what is founded the entertainment or pleasure which wit produces, I should answer...

...enumerated) the face of a general proposition. He described wit as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any semblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy. But...

...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 congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,...

...always the clearest "judgment or deepest reason: for wit lying mostly in " the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together " with quickness and variety...wherein can be found any " resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up plea" sant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; "judgment, on the contrary,...

...Locke, who was cotemporary with Dryden, defines 'wit' as 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. This definition of wit he...

...always the clearest judgment or deepest reason : for wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,...

...is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. 23. Wit lies 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; judgment, on the contrary,...

...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....