The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 76
... present practice with his new theory . In such a state of flux , the neoclassical mind found itself at times in much confusion . Wit was particularly aggravating in being at once necessary and reprehensible . One can understand the ...
... present practice with his new theory . In such a state of flux , the neoclassical mind found itself at times in much confusion . Wit was particularly aggravating in being at once necessary and reprehensible . One can understand the ...
Stran 118
... present . SUMMARY Wit became the key word in psychology as well as in rhetoric . Drawing upon old conjectures in faculty psychology , in which wit had already been allied with both judgment and imagination , controversy during the ...
... present . SUMMARY Wit became the key word in psychology as well as in rhetoric . Drawing upon old conjectures in faculty psychology , in which wit had already been allied with both judgment and imagination , controversy during the ...
Stran 133
... Present - day figures of speech bear out the same meaning : " bright sayings , " " scintillating con- versations , " " brilliant wit . " Wit was commonly credited with the light which accompanies the understanding , illuminating the ...
... Present - day figures of speech bear out the same meaning : " bright sayings , " " scintillating con- versations , " " brilliant wit . " Wit was commonly credited with the light which accompanies the understanding , illuminating the ...
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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