...narrow views and, instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the mind of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been...too much praised and too much neglected at another a. 50 Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and...

...narrow views, and, instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the mind of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been...different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism...

...narrow views, and, instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the mind of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been...different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism...

...narrow views and, instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the mind of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been...too much praised and too much neglected at another." " " Cowley," t6., I, 44-48. 80 76., I, 49-51. 81 Ib., I, 7, 14. " 76., I, 64. " 76., I, 55-65, passim....

...one, for this line of thought begins with a historical observation as part of a historical exercise: "Wit, like all other things subject by their nature...fashions, and at different times takes different forms" (para. 5o). Wit, thus, is registered as relative, how different historical periods tell different jokes...

...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement. COWLEY, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...man, has its changes and fashions, and at different tiine.s takes different forms About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers...