The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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... Addison considered this kind of wit a " Composition of Punn and true Wit , " Johnson thought of it as a mixture of true and false thoughts . Both men were critical of the distortions of truth which arose from the deliberate twisting of ...
... Addison considered this kind of wit a " Composition of Punn and true Wit , " Johnson thought of it as a mixture of true and false thoughts . Both men were critical of the distortions of truth which arose from the deliberate twisting of ...
Stran 136
... Addison had as high a regard for true wit as any of his contemporaries . His purpose in writing the Spectator series , stated in issue Number 10 , reveals his respect for genuine wit . The dream - vision of the " Region of False Wit ...
... Addison had as high a regard for true wit as any of his contemporaries . His purpose in writing the Spectator series , stated in issue Number 10 , reveals his respect for genuine wit . The dream - vision of the " Region of False Wit ...
Stran 207
... Addison , in the Spectator , No. 249 , stated that ridicule should be “ employed to laugh Men out of Vice and Folly " so that " it might be of some Use to the World " instead of being generally " made use of to laugh Men out of Virtue ...
... Addison , in the Spectator , No. 249 , stated that ridicule should be “ employed to laugh Men out of Vice and Folly " so that " it might be of some Use to the World " instead of being generally " made use of to laugh Men out of Virtue ...
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PREFACE | 11 |
THE ENIGMA OF WIT | 17 |
THE RHETORIC OF WIT | 36 |
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Abraham Cowley Addison Age of Wit Alexander Pope ancients 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's witty Wolseley words writing wrote