...Cowley, where he says : — Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Admirable too is Johnson's description, in the same Life, of the characteristics of the " metaphysical...

...abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of concors ' ; a combination of dissimilar images, or...more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are Vjoked. by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions;...

...they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature...

...was to Donne. He was the poet of "wit." According to Dr. Johnson's famous definition, wit consists in "a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." ' This ingenuity of Donne must be dwelt upon, because his mannerisms were imitated by certain younger...

...more economical statement. AFTERWORD DouWetotes Wit . . . may be ... considered as a kind of discordio concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for...

...abstracted from its effect upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered äs a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar...things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they [the metaphysical poets] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...

...As for the remainder, though it is not science, it is a thing no less valid or rare — it is wit, "a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." When we are shown that the circumstances of Pope's giddy and glittering Augustan belle have something...

...combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike" and that "the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...ransacked for illustrations, comparisons and allusions", so the cAbbasid critic al-Amidl complains of Abu Tammam and his unfamiliar and far-fetched metaphors.42...

...should be attempting to move, or ideas trying to express. For them, wit was, in Johnson's famous phrase, a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for...

...Dr Johnson complains, in his essay on Abraham Cowley, that in the work of the Metaphysicals there is "a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike" and that "the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked...