...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or eongraity, thereby to make up pleasant pietores and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the...

...definition of wit, perhaps, is Locke's: "It lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions to the fancy." Of this Addison says, "Every resemblance of ideas is not that which we call wit, unless...

...is not the mind. What does Locke say? " Witlies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures." "But," says Addison, "every resemblance in ideas is not wit, unless it be such an one as gives delight...

...all good writing. Locke describes wit as ' lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Addison adds to this definition,...

...Locke, "is a faculty of the mind, consisting in the assembling and putting together of those ideas with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity; by which to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions, in me fancy. ' "This faculty," the same...

...re-statement of Hobbes in 1690 ("wit . . . [lies] most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity'"9), since Dryden's definition applied chiefly to good writing in general, and not to literature...