The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 28
... meaning of wit is its perplexity , its enigmatic quality . The men of learning understood this context well . The nearest that they came to common agreement was that there were certain aspects of wit too elusive to define . If the fact ...
... meaning of wit is its perplexity , its enigmatic quality . The men of learning understood this context well . The nearest that they came to common agreement was that there were certain aspects of wit too elusive to define . If the fact ...
Stran 50
... meaning both " fingers " and the figures one through nine , though usually including the symbol zero . The first two ... meaning of the expression " made a Hand " -the literal meaning and a seven- teenth - century meaning " to make a ...
... meaning both " fingers " and the figures one through nine , though usually including the symbol zero . The first two ... meaning of the expression " made a Hand " -the literal meaning and a seven- teenth - century meaning " to make a ...
Stran 81
... meaning of wit differed as its identification with these mental processes differed . WIT AS INTELLECT Wit , coming from the Old English witan ( to know ) , had meant " intellect " from early times , as in line 589 in Beowulf : peah pin ...
... meaning of wit differed as its identification with these mental processes differed . WIT AS INTELLECT Wit , coming from the Old English witan ( to know ) , had meant " intellect " from early times , as in line 589 in Beowulf : peah pin ...
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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