The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 101
... lively on the fancy , and therefore is so acceptable to all people . ” 77 Locke's definition of wit was widely debated in succeeding years . It was acceptable to some , Lewis Theobald for instance , " and was modified by others ...
... lively on the fancy , and therefore is so acceptable to all people . ” 77 Locke's definition of wit was widely debated in succeeding years . It was acceptable to some , Lewis Theobald for instance , " and was modified by others ...
Stran 132
... lively expression of Na- ture . " By " Nature " he meant " not only all sorts of material Objects and every species of Substance whatsoever , but also general No- tions and abstracted Truths , such as exist only in the Minds of men and ...
... lively expression of Na- ture . " By " Nature " he meant " not only all sorts of material Objects and every species of Substance whatsoever , but also general No- tions and abstracted Truths , such as exist only in the Minds of men and ...
Stran 242
... lively instance of those Wits , who , as an Ingenious Author says , will endure but one Skimming . " The taste of the little wits was notoriously inferior . Dryden called them “ Les Petits Esprits ... who like nothing but the husk and ...
... lively instance of those Wits , who , as an Ingenious Author says , will endure but one Skimming . " The taste of the little wits was notoriously inferior . Dryden called them “ Les Petits Esprits ... who like nothing but the husk and ...
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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