The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 150
... speaking I am apt to fall into the voice and manner of the Houyhnhnms , and hear myself ridiculed on that account ... speak it without vanity ) partly out of kindness , was determined to see me in my canoe , and got several of his ...
... speaking I am apt to fall into the voice and manner of the Houyhnhnms , and hear myself ridiculed on that account ... speak it without vanity ) partly out of kindness , was determined to see me in my canoe , and got several of his ...
Stran 202
... speak wit- appropriate wit , of course : " Tho I make a Difference betwixt Wit and Humour , yet I do not think that Humorous Characters ex- clude Wit : No , but the Manner of Wit should be adapted to the Humour . " 45 Swift felt that ...
... speak wit- appropriate wit , of course : " Tho I make a Difference betwixt Wit and Humour , yet I do not think that Humorous Characters ex- clude Wit : No , but the Manner of Wit should be adapted to the Humour . " 45 Swift felt that ...
Stran 296
... speak to the Heart . And the greatest Wit in the World , when he ceases to do that , is a Rhimer and not a Poet . For a Poet , that he may be sure to instruct , is oblig'd to give all the delight that he can . Now nothing that is not ...
... speak to the Heart . And the greatest Wit in the World , when he ceases to do that , is a Rhimer and not a Poet . For a Poet , that he may be sure to instruct , is oblig'd to give all the delight that he can . Now nothing that is not ...
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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