 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphpr and allusion, wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people. Loche WIT-HUNTING. Quand on court aprbs l'esprit, on attrappe la sottise. Montesquieu. GENUINE AND... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people. Locke WIT-HUNTING. Quand on court apres Pesprit, on attrappe la sottise. Montesquieu. GENUINE AND INNOCENT... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...on the fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.1 This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 pages
...ono thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...fancy and is therefore so acceptable to all people." ' Locke, it is evident, is here describing the manner of the poetry in vogue in his own day. The characteristics... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' 30 This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit, which... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' 30 This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit, which... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes BO lively on the fancy, and therefore s& acceptable to all people ; because its beauty appears at fii... | |
 | 1887 - 992 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment and pleasantry...fancy and is therefore so acceptable to all people." ' Locke, it is evident, is here describing the manner of the poetry in vogue in his own day. The characteristics... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore, so acceptable to all people because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required... | |
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This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people... 
