The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 29
... vice , and laughing folly out of existence ; but its detractors dismissed it for distorting , counterfeiting , and otherwise confusing not only vice and folly but also truth itself . These meanings thrived in an atmosphere of contention ...
... vice , and laughing folly out of existence ; but its detractors dismissed it for distorting , counterfeiting , and otherwise confusing not only vice and folly but also truth itself . These meanings thrived in an atmosphere of contention ...
Stran 233
... Vice depressed ) and perhaps it might have been better received had neither been done in it : for I find , it pleases most to see Vice incouraged , by bringing the Characters of debauch'd People upon the Stage , and making them pass for ...
... Vice depressed ) and perhaps it might have been better received had neither been done in it : for I find , it pleases most to see Vice incouraged , by bringing the Characters of debauch'd People upon the Stage , and making them pass for ...
Stran 293
... vice pleasantly . The Tatler , No. 74 , contained a letter by an anonymous writer commending that journal for " raising merit from obscurity , celebrating virtue in distress , and attacking vice in another method , by setting innocence ...
... vice pleasantly . The Tatler , No. 74 , contained a letter by an anonymous writer commending that journal for " raising merit from obscurity , celebrating virtue in distress , and attacking vice in another method , by setting innocence ...
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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