The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 50
... line contains a pun on " digits , " meaning both “ fingers " and the figures one through nine , though usually including the symbol zero . The first two lines present an enigma or riddle , which is solved in lines 3 and 4. The four lines ...
... line contains a pun on " digits , " meaning both “ fingers " and the figures one through nine , though usually including the symbol zero . The first two lines present an enigma or riddle , which is solved in lines 3 and 4. The four lines ...
Stran 72
... lines : Transcribe th ' Original in new Copies ; give Hastings o ' th ' better part : so shall he live In's Nobler Half ; and the great Grandsire be Of an Heroick Divine Progenie . The irregular run - ons , together with awkward elision ...
... lines : Transcribe th ' Original in new Copies ; give Hastings o ' th ' better part : so shall he live In's Nobler Half ; and the great Grandsire be Of an Heroick Divine Progenie . The irregular run - ons , together with awkward elision ...
Stran 74
... line , turning in meaning on " greater " as applying to nonsense , is a typical reversal employed throughout the poem . The parallel ideas in lines 9 and 10 , balanced two to a line , work effectively in antithesis to point up the ...
... line , turning in meaning on " greater " as applying to nonsense , is a typical reversal employed throughout the poem . The parallel ideas in lines 9 and 10 , balanced two to a line , work effectively in antithesis to point up 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