The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 32
... define the figure of the fleeting air . ” Thus , the enigmatic quality remained . Dr. Barrow had only defined certain of its evidences for his congregation and con- cluded : " It consisteth in one knows not what , and springeth up one ...
... define the figure of the fleeting air . ” Thus , the enigmatic quality remained . Dr. Barrow had only defined certain of its evidences for his congregation and con- cluded : " It consisteth in one knows not what , and springeth up one ...
Stran 125
... Definition of Wit , as of good Writing in general . " He argued ( Spectator , No. 62 ) that if it defined true wit , then " Euclid was the greatest Wit that ever set pen to paper . " He felt that mere wit of words was not true but false ...
... Definition of Wit , as of good Writing in general . " He argued ( Spectator , No. 62 ) that if it defined true wit , then " Euclid was the greatest Wit that ever set pen to paper . " He felt that mere wit of words was not true but false ...
Stran 172
... defined wit " or wit writing ( if you will give me leave to use a School distinction ) " as " no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer , which , like a nimble spaniel , beats over and ranges thro ' the field of memory ...
... defined wit " or wit writing ( if you will give me leave to use a School distinction ) " as " no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer , which , like a nimble spaniel , beats over and ranges thro ' the field of memory ...
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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