The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 79
... faculty , called the will . The will is free to act upon the dic- tates of truth . In this manner , the noblest purpose of the human being was realized under faculty psychology : the perception of moral truth as the basis for human ...
... faculty , called the will . The will is free to act upon the dic- tates of truth . In this manner , the noblest purpose of the human being was realized under faculty psychology : the perception of moral truth as the basis for human ...
Stran 102
... faculty replacing imagination , wit had in a short time moved a long distance from meaning intellect . As the specific faculty of imagination , it was a source of creative thought to some , a recalcitrant faculty in need of discipline ...
... faculty replacing imagination , wit had in a short time moved a long distance from meaning intellect . As the specific faculty of imagination , it was a source of creative thought to some , a recalcitrant faculty in need of discipline ...
Stran 121
... faculty . As such , it was acceptable to decorum only as it became a submissive partner to judgment , the rational faculty . De- fenders of judgment always objected to the elevation of wit above , or even equal to , the reasoning faculty ...
... faculty . As such , it was acceptable to decorum only as it became a submissive partner to judgment , the rational faculty . De- fenders of judgment always objected to the elevation of wit above , or even equal to , the reasoning faculty ...
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PREFACE | 11 |
THE ENIGMA OF WIT | 17 |
THE RHETORIC OF WIT | 36 |
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Abraham Cowley Addison Age of Wit Alexander Pope ancients Augustan Reprint Society Beauty Bishop Sprat Blackmore called chap comedy concept context conversation Country Wife Cowley decorum Dennis Discourse Dryden dull Dunciad Earl English epigram Essay on Criticism expression extravagant faculty faculty psychology false wit fancy figures Flecknoe fool genius Gulliver Hobbes HORNER Houyhnhnms humor imagination intellectual irreligion John John Dryden Jonathan Swift kind of wit LADY FIDGET laugh Learning letter literary little wits London Longinus manner meaning ment metaphor metaphysical metaphysical poets mind moral nature neoclassical ornamentation play poem poet poetic Poetry Pope popular Preface to Valentinian pretenders propriety psychology raillery reason Republic of Wit rhetorical ridicule rules satire secret grace sect sense seventeenth century Shadwell Shaftesbury Spectator Spingarn spirit style sublime Swift Tatler things Thomas Hobbes thought tion true wit truth turn vice wit's witty Wolseley words writing wrote