 | Henry Rogers - English essays - 1855 - 428 pages
...myself bound to waste much time in criticising the metaphysics of this learned physician.' (p. 117.) ' " Wit," says Johnson, " may be more rigorously and philosophically...dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in tilings apparently unlike;" but, if this be true, then the discovery of the resemblance between diamond... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery 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 Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 pages
...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." Thus, of Bacon, it is remarked by Mr. Craik, that the characteristic of his writing is pre-eminently... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 pages
...Sermons, and Bossuet's Funeral Orations. So again of Johnson's definition. " Wit," says the Doctor, " may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of concordia dwcort, — a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...Sermons, and Bossuet's Funeral Orations. So again of Johnson's definition. " Wit," says the Doctor, " may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of concordia discors,—a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 182 pages
...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concurs; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances, in things apparently unlike To the comparison of a man that travels and a wife that stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it... | |
 | English fiction - 1877 - 688 pages
...of high and exalted ferments' — whatever that may mean. Dr. Johnson also informs us that wit maybe more 'rigorously and philosophically considered as...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.' Poor dear Dr. Johnson ! What a storm in a teacup ! We hope our readers now thoroughly understand what... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia сонcors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...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. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...upon the hearer, may be more vigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence... | |
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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. 
