The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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... fashion : innova- tion , imitation , and irritation . Each new fashion was initiated by a poet or group of poets as an innovation . When successful , the fashion was almost immediately imitated , becoming de rigueur among other literary ...
... fashion : innova- tion , imitation , and irritation . Each new fashion was initiated by a poet or group of poets as an innovation . When successful , the fashion was almost immediately imitated , becoming de rigueur among other literary ...
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... fashion and manners and at the same time one enslaved to them by a sense of duty was Philip Dormer Stanhope , the fourth Earl of Chesterfield . As a politician , wit , and letter writer , he lived in the very thick of fashion . He felt ...
... fashion and manners and at the same time one enslaved to them by a sense of duty was Philip Dormer Stanhope , the fourth Earl of Chesterfield . As a politician , wit , and letter writer , he lived in the very thick of fashion . He felt ...
Stran 235
... fashion , and taste , to the rest of that society . There is always a strict , and often for the time being , a tender alliance between these two figures . The lady looks upon her empire as founded upon the divine right of beauty ( and ...
... fashion , and taste , to the rest of that society . There is always a strict , and often for the time being , a tender alliance between these two figures . The lady looks upon her empire as founded upon the divine right of beauty ( and ...
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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 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