 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...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,...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...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 pages
...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 concurs ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of -occult resemblances in things apparently... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...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,...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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,...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
..." 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. 
