...shall speedily be landed in the ocean of eternity." Johnson says that wit is " a discordia concors, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." Many have considered that humour consists of contrast or comparison, and it is true that a large portion...

...how he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of ingenuity they were ever found The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprizes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires,...

...From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind oidiscordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas arc yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes...

...From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind ofdiscordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...From one point of view, wit, as Dr. Johnson says, ' may be considered as a kind ofdiseordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...hearer, may be more vigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of dis- 45 cordia concors — a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus a8, 29. Pope . . . rxpn,nsitd. The exact words of Pope are in the following couplet from his Essay...

...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." It certainly often arises from the discovery of some unexpected resemblance or relation between things...

...fuller licence to his ingenuity. Describing the style of the " metaphysical poets," Johnson says — " The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises:" and among the metaphysical poets he considers Cowley to be "undoubtedly the best."...

...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they " (the metaphysical school) "have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...