The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 176
... Force of Beauty , in other Subjects , " in art primarily . " Every - one , " he maintained , " pursues a grace , and courts a Venus of one kind or another . The Venustum , the Honestum , the Decorum of Things , will force its way ...
... Force of Beauty , in other Subjects , " in art primarily . " Every - one , " he maintained , " pursues a grace , and courts a Venus of one kind or another . The Venustum , the Honestum , the Decorum of Things , will force its way ...
Stran 187
... forces in society . This basic seriousness is easily overlooked in an age renowned for levity . The citizens in this ... force against the evils of the day . In this literary context of wit , two features of the age facilitated the ...
... forces in society . This basic seriousness is easily overlooked in an age renowned for levity . The citizens in this ... force against the evils of the day . In this literary context of wit , two features of the age facilitated the ...
Stran 232
... force of wit could distort the aim of the man of wit is illustrated in the compromise which Dryden made with his age . His argument with Shadwell brought this compromise into full view . Dryden , caught up in the Zeitgeist , argued that ...
... force of wit could distort the aim of the man of wit is illustrated in the compromise which Dryden made with his age . His argument with Shadwell brought this compromise into full view . Dryden , caught up in the Zeitgeist , argued that ...
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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