The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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... resulting criti- cisms and definitions were plagued with semantic complications . The word wit accumulated a score ... results can be indicated briefly by a list prepared by Dr. Isaac Barrow , a seventeenth - century divine who as a ...
... resulting criti- cisms and definitions were plagued with semantic complications . The word wit accumulated a score ... results can be indicated briefly by a list prepared by Dr. Isaac Barrow , a seventeenth - century divine who as a ...
Stran 68
... result of which , in its confusion of images , entertains for a moment but soon becomes " wearisome " because it is ... resulting wit is deemed false : I humbly conceive that the same Thing that is as white as Snow , ought without any ...
... result of which , in its confusion of images , entertains for a moment but soon becomes " wearisome " because it is ... resulting wit is deemed false : I humbly conceive that the same Thing that is as white as Snow , ought without any ...
Stran 230
... result of this new " art of polite conversing " ( wrote Swift in his usual ironic vein ) , dull story- tellers need no longer be tolerated , for under the new “ art ” they will be interrupted with " some sudden surprizing piece of wit ...
... result of this new " art of polite conversing " ( wrote Swift in his usual ironic vein ) , dull story- tellers need no longer be tolerated , for under the new “ art ” they will be interrupted with " some sudden surprizing piece of wit ...
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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