Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismOxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... things , and a quickness and neatness in rendering them34 - a way of putting the idea that neatly anticipates Pope's phrasing in a letter to Wycherley dated December 26 , 1704 : true wit is ' a perfect conception , with an easy delivery ...
... things , and a quickness and neatness in rendering them34 - a way of putting the idea that neatly anticipates Pope's phrasing in a letter to Wycherley dated December 26 , 1704 : true wit is ' a perfect conception , with an easy delivery ...
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... things ; Wit in the Imagination , is a quickness in the phancy to give things proper Images . And in another work he castigates those who debase wit , which is truly fitted for ' great and noble Exercises of the Mind . ' It is in ...
... things ; Wit in the Imagination , is a quickness in the phancy to give things proper Images . And in another work he castigates those who debase wit , which is truly fitted for ' great and noble Exercises of the Mind . ' It is in ...
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... things become insipid if we eat nothing else ; sharp , tart and even bitter things must be combined with them so as to stimulate the taste . He who has not tasted bitter things does not deserve sweet , and , indeed , will not appreciate ...
... things become insipid if we eat nothing else ; sharp , tart and even bitter things must be combined with them so as to stimulate the taste . He who has not tasted bitter things does not deserve sweet , and , indeed , will not appreciate ...
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THE GLOOM OF THE TORY SATIRISTS | 3 |
THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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