The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 59
... gives us many times a hard nut to break our teeth , without a kernel for our pains . " Dryden contrasted such imagery with that of John Donne ; Donne " gives us deep thoughts in common language , " whereas John Cleveland " gives us ...
... gives us many times a hard nut to break our teeth , without a kernel for our pains . " Dryden contrasted such imagery with that of John Donne ; Donne " gives us deep thoughts in common language , " whereas John Cleveland " gives us ...
Stran 86
... give it over as soon as I grow dull . This I know will be Matter of great Raillery to the small Wits ; who will frequently put me in mind of my Promise , desire me to keep my Word , assure me that it is high Time to give over , with ...
... give it over as soon as I grow dull . This I know will be Matter of great Raillery to the small Wits ; who will frequently put me in mind of my Promise , desire me to keep my Word , assure me that it is high Time to give over , with ...
Stran 146
... give the curious reader an idea of its bulk , shape and colour . It stood prominent six foot , and could not be less than sixteen in cir- cumference . The nipple was about half the bigness of my head , and the hue both of that and the ...
... give the curious reader an idea of its bulk , shape and colour . It stood prominent six foot , and could not be less than sixteen in cir- cumference . The nipple was about half the bigness of my head , and the hue both of that and 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