The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 76
... present practice with his new theory . In such a state of flux , the neoclassical mind found itself at times in much confusion . Wit was particularly aggravating in being at once necessary and reprehensible . One can understand the ...
... present practice with his new theory . In such a state of flux , the neoclassical mind found itself at times in much confusion . Wit was particularly aggravating in being at once necessary and reprehensible . One can understand the ...
Stran 118
... present is this , that the moment my father cried Pish ! he whisked himself about - and with his breeches held up by one hand , and his night - gown thrown across the arm of the other , he turned along the gallery to bed , some- thing ...
... present is this , that the moment my father cried Pish ! he whisked himself about - and with his breeches held up by one hand , and his night - gown thrown across the arm of the other , he turned along the gallery to bed , some- thing ...
Stran 228
... present age was superior to the last because " the wit of this age is much more courtly . " Courtliness would be presumably one level above urbanity . Bishop Sprat , more closely associated with the town , believed that “ it is from the ...
... present age was superior to the last because " the wit of this age is much more courtly . " Courtliness would be presumably one level above urbanity . Bishop Sprat , more closely associated with the town , believed that “ it is from 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