The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 126
... fools are as troublesome as those who have wit , admitting for the moment the quality of wit in a fool.17 The quality of wit was indeed elusive in its connotations of excess and surprise . No middle stand was easy when exaggerated ...
... fools are as troublesome as those who have wit , admitting for the moment the quality of wit in a fool.17 The quality of wit was indeed elusive in its connotations of excess and surprise . No middle stand was easy when exaggerated ...
Stran 195
... fool , a blockhead , or a knave , without using any of those opprobrious terms ! To spare the grossness of the names , and to do the thing yet more severely , is to draw a full face , and to make the nose and cheeks stand out , and yet ...
... fool , a blockhead , or a knave , without using any of those opprobrious terms ! To spare the grossness of the names , and to do the thing yet more severely , is to draw a full face , and to make the nose and cheeks stand out , and yet ...
Stran 251
... Fools Day . In the above discussion in the Tatler , biters are called " an ingenious Tribe of Men sprung up of late ... Fool out of a lower or higher Class of Mankind . " At the bottom of the orders was the " butt , " he who " gets the ...
... Fools Day . In the above discussion in the Tatler , biters are called " an ingenious Tribe of Men sprung up of late ... Fool out of a lower or higher Class of Mankind . " At the bottom of the orders was the " butt , " he who " gets 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