The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 86
... dull , " for " sinking " was one effect of heavy melancholy . Dullness as False Wit Dullness and stupidity , the opposite of intelligence , became synonymous with false wit , as the above illustrations reveal . When Shadwell , Theobald ...
... dull , " for " sinking " was one effect of heavy melancholy . Dullness as False Wit Dullness and stupidity , the opposite of intelligence , became synonymous with false wit , as the above illustrations reveal . When Shadwell , Theobald ...
Stran 210
... Dull , the Spectator was damnable Dull ; but when his own Wits were in Action , then the Spectator had a great deal of Wit . So did a man's critical opinion change with his attitude . Swift's changing attitude toward the function of ...
... Dull , the Spectator was damnable Dull ; but when his own Wits were in Action , then the Spectator had a great deal of Wit . So did a man's critical opinion change with his attitude . Swift's changing attitude toward the function of ...
Stran 245
... dull , and seems dull ; but Dactyle is heavy with a brisk face . It must be owned also , that Dactyle has almost vigour enough to be a coxcomb ; but Spondee , by the lowness of his constitution , is only a blockhead . " Briskness did ...
... dull , and seems dull ; but Dactyle is heavy with a brisk face . It must be owned also , that Dactyle has almost vigour enough to be a coxcomb ; but Spondee , by the lowness of his constitution , is only a blockhead . " Briskness did ...
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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