The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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... turn . As wit of thought during the first half of the century concentrated upon unexpected metaphors and similes , so the wit of the last half exploited the surprise of an ingenious turn . By means of a play upon a word or thought ...
... turn . As wit of thought during the first half of the century concentrated upon unexpected metaphors and similes , so the wit of the last half exploited the surprise of an ingenious turn . By means of a play upon a word or thought ...
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... turn but also the conceit . Dryden , who in his youth had abandoned the metaphysical conceit for the turn of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham , 48 felt in his old age that " the Epic Poem is too stately to receive those little ...
... turn but also the conceit . Dryden , who in his youth had abandoned the metaphysical conceit for the turn of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham , 48 felt in his old age that " the Epic Poem is too stately to receive those little ...
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D. Judson Milburn. Richard Steele considered the turn in a class with other merely verbal devices : " It is pleasant to see the Man of Judgment start at a Turn or a Metaphor ; and the Men of Taste , as they call themselves , yawn at a ...
D. Judson Milburn. Richard Steele considered the turn in a class with other merely verbal devices : " It is pleasant to see the Man of Judgment start at a Turn or a Metaphor ; and the Men of Taste , as they call themselves , yawn at a ...
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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