The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 75
... never bite . In thy fellonious heart , though Venom lies , It does but touch thy Irish pen , and dyes . Thy Genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambicks , but mild Anagram : Leave writing Plays , and chuse for thy command ...
... never bite . In thy fellonious heart , though Venom lies , It does but touch thy Irish pen , and dyes . Thy Genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambicks , but mild Anagram : Leave writing Plays , and chuse for thy command ...
Stran 116
... never applicable before to any one biographical writer since the creation of the world , but to myself and I believe , will never hold good to any other , until its final destruction - and therefore , for the very novelty of it alone ...
... never applicable before to any one biographical writer since the creation of the world , but to myself and I believe , will never hold good to any other , until its final destruction - and therefore , for the very novelty of it alone ...
Stran 127
... never to be acquir'd : and the Person who should pretend to acquire it , would be always secure from Envy . But if by Wit he means Conceit and Point , those are things that ought never to be in Poetry , unless by chance sometimes in the ...
... never to be acquir'd : and the Person who should pretend to acquire it , would be always secure from Envy . But if by Wit he means Conceit and Point , those are things that ought never to be in Poetry , unless by chance sometimes in the ...
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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