 Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner; the flashing of an artificial light from one object to another, disclosing some unexpected resemblance or connection. It is the detection of likeness in unlikeness,...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Էջ 474խմբագրել է - 1846Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 էջ
...does not contemplate its ideas for their own sakcs in any light apart from their ordinary prosaical one, but solely for the purpose of producing an effect...one object to another, disclosing some unexpected resemblance or connection. It is the detection of likeness in unlikeness, of sympathy in antipathy,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 էջ
...does not contemplate its ideas for their own sakes in any light apart from their ordinary prosaical one, but solely for the purpose of producing an effect...one object to another, disclosing some unexpected resemblance or connection. It is u5 the detection of likeness in unlikeness, of sympathy in antipathy,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 598 էջ
...does not contemplate its ideas for their own sakes in any light apart from their ordinary proaitiral one, but solely for the purpose of producing an effect...light from one object to another, disclosing some unexpeeted resemblance or connection. It is the dcleetion of likeness in unlikeness, of sympathy in... | |
 | 1847 - 488 էջ
...does not contemplate its ideas for their own sskes in any light apart from their ordinary prosaical one, but solely for the purpose of producing an effect...arbitrary character, and converts it into something. Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities — the meeting of extremes round a corner— the... | |
 | 1847 - 1054 էջ
...Essay)/ is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities—the meeting of extremes round a corner—the flashing of an artificial light from one object to another, disclosing some unexpected resemblance or connection. It is the detection of likeness in unlikeness—of sympathy in antipathy—-... | |
 | 1847 - 650 էջ
...not contemplate its ideas for their own sakes, in any •iight apart from their ordinary prosaical one, but solely for the purpose of producing an effect by their combination." Of humor : "Humor, considered as the object treated of by • the humorous)writer, and not as the power... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 էջ
...does not contemplate its ideas for their own sakes in any light apart from their ordinary prosaica! one, but solely for the purpose of producing an effect...Poetry may take up the combination, and improve it; but then it divests it of its arbitrary character, and converts it into something better." Humor and fun... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 էջ
...Dissimilar Ideas, for some lively purpose of Assimilation or Contrast, generally of both." He calls it the clash and reconcilement of incongruities ; the...one object to another, disclosing some unexpected resemblance or connexion. " It is the detection of likeness in unlikeness, of sympathy in antipathy,... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 էջ
...Dissimilar Ideas, for some lively purpose of Assimilation or Contrast, generally of both." He calls it the clash and reconcilement of incongruities ; the...one object to another, disclosing some unexpected resemblance or connexion. " It is the detection of likeness in unlikeness, of sympathy in antipathy,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 էջ
...docs not contemplate its ideas for their own sakes in any light apart from their ordinary prosaical one, but solely for the purpose of producing an effect...one object to another, disclosing some unexpected resemblance or connection. It is the detection of likeness in unlikeness, of sympathy in antipathy,... | |
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