The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 113
... father wished it , with the utmost plainness ; but my father's disappointment was , in finding nothing more from so able a pen , but the bare fact itself ; without any of that speculative subtlety or ambidexterity of argumentation upon ...
... father wished it , with the utmost plainness ; but my father's disappointment was , in finding nothing more from so able a pen , but the bare fact itself ; without any of that speculative subtlety or ambidexterity of argumentation upon ...
Stran 114
... father , of Erasmus his mystic meaning . You are near enough , brother , replied my uncle , in all conscience . - Pshaw ! cried my father , scratching on - I might as well be seven miles off . - I've done it - said my father , snapping ...
... father , of Erasmus his mystic meaning . You are near enough , brother , replied my uncle , in all conscience . - Pshaw ! cried my father , scratching on - I might as well be seven miles off . - I've done it - said my father , snapping ...
Stran 117
... father , for like all orators , he was a dear searcher into comparisons . - Bless me , Sir , said Susannah , the child's in a fit.— And where's Mr. Yorick ? -Never where he should be , said Susannah , but his curate's in the dressing ...
... father , for like all orators , he was a dear searcher into comparisons . - Bless me , Sir , said Susannah , the child's in a fit.— And where's Mr. Yorick ? -Never where he should be , said Susannah , but his curate's in the dressing ...
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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