The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 51
... play upon words and upon the immediacy of the situation ; and the interlacing of irony and paradox . The last popular mode of wit in the seventeenth century was the turn . As wit of thought during the first half of the century ...
... play upon words and upon the immediacy of the situation ; and the interlacing of irony and paradox . The last popular mode of wit in the seventeenth century was the turn . As wit of thought during the first half of the century ...
Stran 162
... play this morning ? " " Been ! " says he ; " I have been at Northampton , in the park , in a lady's bed - chamber , in a dining - room , everywhere ; the rogue has led me such a dance . " Though I could scarce forbear laughing at his ...
... play this morning ? " " Been ! " says he ; " I have been at Northampton , in the park , in a lady's bed - chamber , in a dining - room , everywhere ; the rogue has led me such a dance . " Though I could scarce forbear laughing at his ...
Stran 192
... Plays , The dangerous Rocks upon the Coast of Praise , The cruel Critick and malicious Wit , Who think themselves undone if a Play hit . Dryden , who thought too highly of criticism and wit to honor the hoards of little pretenders with ...
... Plays , The dangerous Rocks upon the Coast of Praise , The cruel Critick and malicious Wit , Who think themselves undone if a Play hit . Dryden , who thought too highly of criticism and wit to honor the hoards of little pretenders with ...
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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