The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 145
... human society is be- ing presented , the reader receives inadvertently ( though purpose- fully , we may be sure ) a closeup view of the human being , as seen in the reactions of the Lilliputians to the monstrous size of Gulliver . Thus ...
... human society is be- ing presented , the reader receives inadvertently ( though purpose- fully , we may be sure ) a closeup view of the human being , as seen in the reactions of the Lilliputians to the monstrous size of Gulliver . Thus ...
Stran 147
... human society in a quite different dimension , symbolically presented by le mythe animal . Two animal societies depict further aspects of human nature and society . First , Gulliver finds himself among the Yahoos , their shape " very ...
... human society in a quite different dimension , symbolically presented by le mythe animal . Two animal societies depict further aspects of human nature and society . First , Gulliver finds himself among the Yahoos , their shape " very ...
Stran 149
... human , has attained an ideal culture far superior to the culture of Europe . Most im- portant for Swift's purpose is the rationalistic basis of Houyhn- hnm society . Without emotional complications , marriages are arranged for the sake ...
... human , has attained an ideal culture far superior to the culture of Europe . Most im- portant for Swift's purpose is the rationalistic basis of Houyhn- hnm society . Without emotional complications , marriages are arranged for the sake ...
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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