The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 242
... pretenders to wit were detested . The pretender might have little or no wit , but his crime against morality and ethics was that of appearing to have more wit than he did . Abercromby discussed this dishonesty : I mean not by a Pretender ...
... pretenders to wit were detested . The pretender might have little or no wit , but his crime against morality and ethics was that of appearing to have more wit than he did . Abercromby discussed this dishonesty : I mean not by a Pretender ...
Stran 245
... pretenders to wit " by profession " as follows : " Spondee is dull , and seems dull ; but Dactyle is heavy with a ... pretenders , in their attempts to imitate true wit , often substituted physical activity for intellec- tual effort ...
... pretenders to wit " by profession " as follows : " Spondee is dull , and seems dull ; but Dactyle is heavy with a ... pretenders , in their attempts to imitate true wit , often substituted physical activity for intellec- tual effort ...
Stran 255
... pretenders that Swift called the " critic vermin . ” Both appealed to " vulgar Minds . " If Addison's opinion were an estimate of the status of wit in the year 1711 , then logically he was judging himself as one of the " unlucky little ...
... pretenders that Swift called the " critic vermin . ” Both appealed to " vulgar Minds . " If Addison's opinion were an estimate of the status of wit in the year 1711 , then logically he was judging himself as one of the " unlucky little ...
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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