The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 37
... popularity ordinarily occurred . Though now out of fashion with the literati , the mode had filtered down meanwhile to lesser poets and to the dilettantes . At this lower and degenerative level the now outmoded fashion could remain popular ...
... popularity ordinarily occurred . Though now out of fashion with the literati , the mode had filtered down meanwhile to lesser poets and to the dilettantes . At this lower and degenerative level the now outmoded fashion could remain popular ...
Stran 42
... POPULAR RHETORICAL MODES OF WIT The reduction of rhetoric to a list of figures of amplification and ornamentation shows the widespread attraction of verbal devices . This popularity was tremendous during the Age of Wit as well as during ...
... POPULAR RHETORICAL MODES OF WIT The reduction of rhetoric to a list of figures of amplification and ornamentation shows the widespread attraction of verbal devices . This popularity was tremendous during the Age of Wit as well as during ...
Stran 227
... popular that it dictated most of the fashionable modes , and because of its emi- nence , some of its most severe ... popularity . The standards of the great productions of wit were obscured by the racy and insolent gossip of the penny ...
... popular that it dictated most of the fashionable modes , and because of its emi- nence , some of its most severe ... popularity . The standards of the great productions of wit were obscured by the racy and insolent gossip of the penny ...
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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