...though not the greatest poet, of the age ; where wit may be understood to express what Johnson calls a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Their delight was to vex rude subjects into comeliness ; no marble was too hard for their chisel, no...

...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; natnre and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,...

...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics...heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th moro than enough. The most heterogeneous idea« are yoked by violence together; nature and art are...

...discovery »f occult resemblances in things apparently imike. Of wit, thus defined, thcv have inore than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked...subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks bis improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account...

...a characteristic sentence in his criticism of Cowley. " Wit," he says, " is a discordia concora — a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike " — an admirable definition of the term in its modern and restricted sense, and one which also includes...

...apparently unke. Of wit, thus dffined. thev have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas ore yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked...thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometime.1! admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of thuir compositions it will be readily...

...the hearer, may be more vigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes...

...thought, but was never before so well expressed." " Wit," says Johnson, " is a kind of discordia concor, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." Of which thoeries, the last is by far the most plausible and philosophical. From what has been already...

...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...

...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...