The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 139
... considered true wit as the embodiment of truth . Tillotson de- clared that " the proper use " of wit is " to season conversation , to represent what is praise - worthy to the greatest advantage , and to expose the vices and follies of ...
... considered true wit as the embodiment of truth . Tillotson de- clared that " the proper use " of wit is " to season conversation , to represent what is praise - worthy to the greatest advantage , and to expose the vices and follies of ...
Stran 154
... considered the source of imaginative writing . Wit therefore became involved in the conflict over the values of the " rules , " a concept used in the Age of Wit not only for the classical unities but also for the proprieties which ...
... considered the source of imaginative writing . Wit therefore became involved in the conflict over the values of the " rules , " a concept used in the Age of Wit not only for the classical unities but also for the proprieties which ...
Stran 238
... considered inimical to the ideals of the Republic of Wit , it was caricature . Furthermore , wit in women was generally considered repre- hensible . A husband neither looked for nor desired wit in his wife . As a sixteenth - century ...
... considered inimical to the ideals of the Republic of Wit , it was caricature . Furthermore , wit in women was generally considered repre- hensible . A husband neither looked for nor desired wit in his wife . As a sixteenth - century ...
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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