The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 64
... language of modera- tion and seasoning ; facetus , the language of polished elegance ; iocus , the language of merriment ; and dicacitas , the language of banter . When Dryden first defined wit as " propriety " in his " Au- thor's ...
... language of modera- tion and seasoning ; facetus , the language of polished elegance ; iocus , the language of merriment ; and dicacitas , the language of banter . When Dryden first defined wit as " propriety " in his " Au- thor's ...
Stran 99
... Language , call'd , the Language of the Beau Monde , that is to say , of certain Persons who have no other Title to be thought Delicate , Nice , and Polite , but because they are Effeminate . ” The fourth kind of wit is distinguished by ...
... Language , call'd , the Language of the Beau Monde , that is to say , of certain Persons who have no other Title to be thought Delicate , Nice , and Polite , but because they are Effeminate . ” The fourth kind of wit is distinguished by ...
Stran 285
... language . For one thing , the modish preoccupation with new jokes , new games , and new slang seemed to limit wit to the present and transitory values , tending thereby to cut it off from universal and traditional values . Swift ...
... language . For one thing , the modish preoccupation with new jokes , new games , and new slang seemed to limit wit to the present and transitory values , tending thereby to cut it off from universal and traditional values . Swift ...
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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