 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...Johnson, " 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 unlike ;" but if this be true, then the discovery of the resemblance between diamond and charcoal, between... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...Johnson, ' 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 unlike;' but, if this be true, then the discovery of the resemblance between diamond and charcoal, between acidification... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pages
...Johnson, " 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 unlike ;" but if this be true, then the discovery of the resemblance between diamond and charcoal, between... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...ideas of a fanciful or whimsical nature. Dr. Johnson describes wit ' as a kind of concordia discours; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike ;' which Leigh Hunt, in his essay on Wit and Humor, amplifies into 'the arbitrary juxtaposition of... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...Johnson, " may be more rigorously and philosophi" cally considered as a kind of concordia discors,—a combination of " dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things " apparently unlike;" but, if this be true, then the discovery of the resemblance between diamond and charcoal, between acidification... | |
 | 1851 - 486 pages
...a fanciful or wliimsical i£.tur?. Dr. Johnson describes wit •' as a kind of concora'iu ditcoun ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently un like ;" which Leigh Hunt, in his essay oi Wit and Humour, amplifies into "the srW trary juxtaposition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...philosophically considered as a Tdnd of fci <v*<.-.»r»; a combination of dissimilar images, or disT of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike....are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allustoos : their leamirur instructs, and their subtility surprises ; bu: :;-.e reader cvmmouly thinks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pages
...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of (eZiwwdi'a ccmcors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. J'ho a^gt heterogeneous ideas are (yoked by violence together; nature " and art are ransacked for^illustrations,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...recorded in a characteristic sentence in his criticism of Cowley. " Wit," he says, " is a discordia _xxE ߮Q — an admirable definition of the term in its modern and restricted sense, and one which also includes... | |
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... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. 
