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Author : Richard Flecknoe
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-08-19
Essays On Wit No 2 written by Richard Flecknoe and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-19 with Humor categories.
"Essays on Wit No. 2" by Richard Flecknoe, Joseph Warton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Essays On Wit
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Author : Richard Flecknoe
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-09
Essays On Wit written by Richard Flecknoe and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-09 with categories.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES ON WIT The age of Dryden and Pope was an age of wit, but there were few who could explain precisely what they meant by the term. A thing so multiform and. Protean escaped the bonds of logic and definition. In his sermon "Against Foolish Talking and Jesting" the learned Dr. Isaac Barrow attempted to describe some of the forms which it took; the forms were many, and it is difficult to discover any element which they held in common. Nevertheless Barrow ventured a summary: It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as Reason teacheth and proveth things by, ) which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness in conceit of expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. And about sixty years later, despite the work of Hobbes and Locke in calling attention to the importance of semantics, the confusion still existed. According to John Oldmixon (Essay on Criticism, 1727, p. 21), "Wit and Humour, Wit and good Sense, Wit and Wisdom, Wit and Reason, Wit and Craft; nay, Wit and Philosophy, are with us almost the same Things." Some such confusion is apparent in the definition presented by the Essay on Wit (1748, p. 6). In general it was recognized that there were two main kinds of wit. Both fancy and judgment, said Hobbes (Human Nature, X, sect. 4), are usually understood in the term wit; and wit seems to be "a tenuity and agility of spirits," opposed to the sluggishness of spirits assumed to be characteristic of dull people. Sometimes wit was used in this sense to translate the words ingenium or l'esprit. But Hobbes's disciple Walter Charleton objected to making it the equivalent of ingenium, which, he said, rather signified a man's natural inclination-that is, genius. Instead, he described wit as either the faculty of understanding, or an act or effect of that faculty; and understanding is made up of both judgment and Imagination. The Ample or Happy Wit exhibits a fine blend of the two (Brief Discourse concerning the Different Wits of Men, 1669, pp. 10, 17-19). In this sense wit combines quickness and solidity of mind. In the other, and more restricted sense, wit was made identical with fancy (or imagination) and distinguished sharply from reason or judgment. So Hobbes, recording a popular meaning of wit, remarked (Leviathan. I, viii) that people who discover rarely observed similitudes in objects that otherwise are much unlike, are said to have a good wit. And judgment, directly opposed to it, was taken to be the faculty of discerning differences in objects that are superficially alike. (Between this idea of wit as discovering likeness in things unlike, and the Platonic idea of discovering the One in the Many, the Augustans made no connection.) A similar distinction between wit and judgment was made by Charleton, Robert Boyle, John Locke, and many others. The full implication lying in Hobbes's definition can be seen in Walter Charleton, who said (Brief Discourse, pp. 20-21) that imagination (or wit) is the faculty by which "we conceive some certain similitude in objects really unlike, and pleasantly confound them in discourse: Which by its unexpected Fineness and allusion, surprizing the Hearer, renders him less curious of the truth of what is said." In short, wit is delightful, but, because it leads away from truth, unprofitable and, it may be, even dangerous....
Essays On Wit
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Author : Richard Flecknoe and Joseph Warton
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-08-11
Essays On Wit written by Richard Flecknoe and Joseph Warton and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-11 with categories.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Essays On Wit No 2
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Author : Edward Niles Hooker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-10
Essays On Wit No 2 written by Edward Niles Hooker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-10 with History categories.
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Author : Richard Flecknoe Joseph Warton
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Essays On Wit written by Richard Flecknoe Joseph Warton and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Fiction categories.
"[...] Why, what a deal of candied Courtesie This fawning Greyhound then did proffer me! Look, when his infant Fortune came to Age, And gentle Harry Percy—and kind Cousin—The Devil take such Cozeners.— Shakespear found the Stage, and all the People of his Days, infected with these Puerillities, and he very well knew how (though perhaps he never read it in Epictetús)[...]".
English Literature Volume 2
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Author : Louis A. Landa
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-08
English Literature Volume 2 written by Louis A. Landa and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Two volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly. "An excellent aid to the student of 18th century literature."—Saturday Review. Volume 2, 1939-1950, includes consolidated index for both volumes. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Catalog Of Printed Books Of The Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D C
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Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
language : en
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Release Date : 1970
Catalog Of Printed Books Of The Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D C written by Folger Shakespeare Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with English literature categories.
The Cultural Milieu Of Addison S Literary Criticism
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Author : Lee Andrew Elioseff
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
The Cultural Milieu Of Addison S Literary Criticism written by Lee Andrew Elioseff and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The whole history of literary criticism is illuminated by this analysis of one English critic’s work. It is, in effect, a literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature? Initially, Lee Andrew Elioseff defines four difficult responsibilities of the historian of criticism: the interpretation of his material in terms of all the cultural circumstances that produced it; elimination of the purely chance elements, such as private feuds and unimportant personal tastes; consideration of those aspects of criticism that best indicate the dominant critical opinions of the age and the principles that are leading it; and illumination of the present critical situation. Concentrating upon the first three of these obligations, Elioseff seeks the sources of modern literary criticism in the works of Joseph Addison and his contemporaries, analyzing with great care and accuracy their responses to problems—both literary and nonliterary—in their culture. From the analysis, Addison emerges as a very significant figure: a critic who moved from Renaissance and neoclassical humanism and became one of the most important predecessors of romantic criticism; a formulator of what was to become the “emotive strain” in literary criticism; an essayist who raised many problems shared by the “modern” psychological critic whose immediate concern is the effect of the literature upon its audience. Drawing abundantly from a wide knowledge of philosophy, literature, and history, and exercising an incisive critical acumen, Elioseff discusses Addison’s criticism in three aspects: “The Critical Milieu,” an interpretation of Addison’s relation to his age as it influenced his views on tragedy, epic poetry, and ballads; “Addison and Eighteenth-Century England,” a consideration of contemporary political thought, morals, and theology; and the “Empirical Tradition,” an analysis of Addison’s critical views as expressed in The Pleasures of the Imagination.
Dictionary Catalog Of The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Author : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1974
Dictionary Catalog Of The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library written by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Education categories.
De Carmine Pastorali
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Author : René Rapin
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
De Carmine Pastorali written by René Rapin and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with History categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "De Carmine Pastorali" (Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684)) by René Rapin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
