 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 is therefore so acceptable to all people.  The British Essayistsúprava: - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Locke - 1849 - Počet stránok 588
...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - Počet stránok 446
...— thereby to avoid " being misled by similitude, and by affinity to. take one " thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite " contrary to metaphor...of " wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and there" fore is so acceptable to all people,—because its beauty " appears at first sight, and there... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - Počet stránok 420
...difference, — thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...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... | |
 | 1850 - Počet stránok 600
...affinity to take one thing for another. Addison quotes this passage in the Spectator, and says : ' This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I ever met with of wit, which generally, though not always, consists in such a resemblance and congruity... | |
 | 1851 - Počet stránok 486
...affinity to take one thing for another Addison quotes this passage in the "Spectator" and says:— "This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I ever met with of wit, which generally, though not always, consists in such a resemblance and congruity... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - Počet stránok 786
...difference; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to Metaphor and Allusion, wherein for the most part lie that entertainment and pleasantry of Wit which strike so lively on the fancy, and [are] therefore... | |
 | 1853 - Počet stránok 756
...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...•which generally, though not always, consists in snch a resemblance and congruity of ideas as this author mentions. I shall only add to it, by way of... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - Počet stránok 596
...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' This If, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit, which generally,... | |
 | 1853 - Počet stránok 524
...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity j to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...wherein, for the most part, lies that entertainment uud pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - Počet stránok 626
...difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...though not always consists in such a resemblance and congruity of ideas as this au. thor mentions. I shall only add to it. by way of explanation, that every... | |
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