 | 1803 - 434 pagine
...in the two ideas that is capable of giving the reader some surprise. Thus when a poet tells us,the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there is...when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. Every reader's memory may supply him with innumerable instances of the same... | |
 | 1803 - 420 pagine
...in the two ideas that is capable of giving the reader some surprise. Thus when a poet tells us,the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there is...when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. Every reader's memory may supply him with innumerable instances of the same... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pagine
...discovered in the two ideas, that is capable of giving the reader some surprise. Thus when a poet tells us, the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there...when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. Every reader's memory may supply him with innumerable instances of the same... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pagine
...when a poet tells us, the bosom of his mistress is as • white as \ ^, *• \ ''VU ****'""*• *^1 snow, there is no wit in the comparison ; but when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. Every reader's memory may supply him with innumerable instances of the same... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pagine
...giving the reader some surprise. Thus when a poet tells us the bosom of his mistress is as white аз snow, there is no wit in the comparison ; but when he adds, with a sigh, it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. Every reader's memory may supply him with innumerable instances... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pagine
...near each other in the nature of things ; for where the likeness is obvious it gives no surprise. " When a poet tells us that the bosom of his mistress...when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit." Addison thinks that although the source of wit pointed out by Locke is by... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 pagine
...discovered in the two ideas that is capable of giving the reader some surprise. Thus when a poet tells us, the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there...when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. Every reader's memory may supply him with innumerable instances of the same... | |
 | 1824 - 284 pagine
...discovered in the two ideas that is capable of giving the reader some surprise. Thus when a poet tells us, the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there...when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. Every reader's memory may supply him with innumerable instances of the same... | |
 | 1827 - 674 pagine
...a double resemblance to the mind, then it becomes Wit. Thus, Addison observes, when a poet tells us the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there...when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. Cowley, observing the cold regard of his mistress's eyes, and at the same time... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 pagine
...bosom, be sure, is as cold." Mr. Addison's opinion is of still higher value. " When a poet " tells us, the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there...when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit.'' — (Spectator, No. liXII.) Page 306, 1st Edit., page 314, 6th Edit. " The... | |
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Thus when a poet tells us, the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there is no wit in the comparison ; but when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit. 
