The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 63
... Hobbes , the philosopher , always took into account the rhetorical implications of wit . For example , in Humane Nature ( 1650 ) he described the " quick ranging minde , " which he op- posed to a dull mind . This quick ranging is ...
... Hobbes , the philosopher , always took into account the rhetorical implications of wit . For example , in Humane Nature ( 1650 ) he described the " quick ranging minde , " which he op- posed to a dull mind . This quick ranging is ...
Stran 94
... Hobbes ' term " decaying sense ” has led some to conclude that he shared the bias of the age against the " vagaries of the imagina- tion . " But granting the fact of decay , or diminution , the above passage certainly enhances its ...
... Hobbes ' term " decaying sense ” has led some to conclude that he shared the bias of the age against the " vagaries of the imagina- tion . " But granting the fact of decay , or diminution , the above passage certainly enhances its ...
Stran 96
... Hobbes perceived in his lifetime the trend toward more positive identifica- tion of wit and imagination in creative writing . He probably had the metaphysical conceit in mind when he wrote in 1651 , " Those that observe similitudes , in ...
... Hobbes perceived in his lifetime the trend toward more positive identifica- tion of wit and imagination in creative writing . He probably had the metaphysical conceit in mind when he wrote in 1651 , " Those that observe similitudes , in ...
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Abraham Cowley Addison Age of Wit Alexander Pope 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 and Humour wit's witty Wolseley words writing wrote