The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 273
... CHARGES AGAINST WIT The opposition to wit was present from the beginning of the age and took many forms - some valid and some purely aca- demic . Opponents , striving only for effect , argued sometimes from traditional positions no ...
... CHARGES AGAINST WIT The opposition to wit was present from the beginning of the age and took many forms - some valid and some purely aca- demic . Opponents , striving only for effect , argued sometimes from traditional positions no ...
Stran 279
... charged often with irreligion . Charges of irreligion continued generally through the last half of the age . Atheism was a choice topic of Blackmore when he was at his favorite whipping horse . A typical passage in An Essay upon Wit ...
... charged often with irreligion . Charges of irreligion continued generally through the last half of the age . Atheism was a choice topic of Blackmore when he was at his favorite whipping horse . A typical passage in An Essay upon Wit ...
Stran 283
... charges served to alienate truth and wit . One of the charges was that wit's rhetorical devices were de- ceptive . This charge referred to " amplification , digressions , and swellings of style , " which obscured the thought . To the ...
... charges served to alienate truth and wit . One of the charges was that wit's rhetorical devices were de- ceptive . This charge referred to " amplification , digressions , and swellings of style , " which obscured the thought . To the ...
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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