The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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... humor were so co- incident that descriptions of one word might easily be taken as describing the other . So Addison's description of humor in the Spectator , No. 35 , used terms and concepts usually reserved for wit : If we look into ...
... humor were so co- incident that descriptions of one word might easily be taken as describing the other . So Addison's description of humor in the Spectator , No. 35 , used terms and concepts usually reserved for wit : If we look into ...
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... humorous " and " merry " methods instead of " the pale , or the melancholy . " 48 Simultaneously with the popular identification of wit and humor , there occurred the change in meaning of humor from the Jonsonian “ humorous " quality of ...
... humorous " and " merry " methods instead of " the pale , or the melancholy . " 48 Simultaneously with the popular identification of wit and humor , there occurred the change in meaning of humor from the Jonsonian “ humorous " quality of ...
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... humor ' . . . more or less grew humorous , as we should say , through a growing discovery of the significance of his own oddity , " and also to the increasing associa- tion of humor with " a mode of pleasantry . " English Humor , p ...
... humor ' . . . more or less grew humorous , as we should say , through a growing discovery of the significance of his own oddity , " and also to the increasing associa- tion of humor with " a mode of pleasantry . " English Humor , p ...
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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