The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 sidor |
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... women and men . Women as Wits Women were not usually accorded the capacity for genuine wit ; furthermore , they were not considered to have a serious role in the Republic of Wit . Therefore , women who aspired to the role of a wit ...
... women and men . Women as Wits Women were not usually accorded the capacity for genuine wit ; furthermore , they were not considered to have a serious role in the Republic of Wit . Therefore , women who aspired to the role of a wit ...
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... women had a considerable influence upon the fortunes of wit , and a few were accorded the honor of sharing its distinction . Women were beginning for the first time to enter the arts in some numbers , par- ticularly acting and writing ...
... women had a considerable influence upon the fortunes of wit , and a few were accorded the honor of sharing its distinction . Women were beginning for the first time to enter the arts in some numbers , par- ticularly acting and writing ...
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... women converse with none but eunuchs , and where the very cucumbers are brought to them cut . Insofar as the wit between women and men was considered inimical to the ideals of the Republic of Wit , it was caricature . Furthermore , wit in ...
... women converse with none but eunuchs , and where the very cucumbers are brought to them cut . Insofar as the wit between women and men was considered inimical to the ideals of the Republic of Wit , it was caricature . Furthermore , wit in ...
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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