The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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... opinion . In 1702 the problem of opinion troubled the playwright George Farquhar because of the result- ing diversity of whims to be faced in theater audiences : " The scholar calls upon us for Decorums and Oeconnomy ; the Courtier ...
... opinion . In 1702 the problem of opinion troubled the playwright George Farquhar because of the result- ing diversity of whims to be faced in theater audiences : " The scholar calls upon us for Decorums and Oeconnomy ; the Courtier ...
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... opinion that " If Hudibras had been set out with as much Wit and Humour in Heroic Verse as he is in Dog- gerel , he [ Samuel ' Hudibras ' Butler ] would have made a much more agreeable Figure than he does . ” In relegating doggerel to a ...
... opinion that " If Hudibras had been set out with as much Wit and Humour in Heroic Verse as he is in Dog- gerel , he [ Samuel ' Hudibras ' Butler ] would have made a much more agreeable Figure than he does . ” In relegating doggerel to a ...
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... opinion developed on the precise nature of true wit . Since no criteria were evolved , the determination of who were wits and who were not remained a matter of personal opinion or of traditional categories . In the traditional category ...
... opinion developed on the precise nature of true wit . Since no criteria were evolved , the determination of who were wits and who were not remained a matter of personal opinion or of traditional categories . In the traditional category ...
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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