The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 sidor |
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... continued to signify " mind " or " intellect " for approximately a thousand years . Then , in the intellectual whirl of the English Renaissance beginning in the sixteenth century , it acquired complications of meaning arising primarily ...
... continued to signify " mind " or " intellect " for approximately a thousand years . Then , in the intellectual whirl of the English Renaissance beginning in the sixteenth century , it acquired complications of meaning arising primarily ...
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... continued into the eighteenth century . Charles Gildon , in his Complete Art of Poetry ( 1718 ) , equated art with the rules and nature with wit . To effect a fusion , he quoted the translation by the Earl of Roscommon of the Ars ...
... continued into the eighteenth century . Charles Gildon , in his Complete Art of Poetry ( 1718 ) , equated art with the rules and nature with wit . To effect a fusion , he quoted the translation by the Earl of Roscommon of the Ars ...
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... continued , " it cannot be con- sidered as a species of wit , because there are many repartees extremely smart , and yet extremely serious . " The implication is that wit is never serious . The degraded concept of wit continued into the ...
... continued , " it cannot be con- sidered as a species of wit , because there are many repartees extremely smart , and yet extremely serious . " The implication is that wit is never serious . The degraded concept of wit continued into the ...
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Abraham Cowley Addison Age of Wit Alexander Pope 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 and Humour wit's witty Wolseley words writing wrote