Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

A discourse concerning ridicule and irony in writing (1729)

Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Earl Miner, _Univ...

Chapters

7. Chapter 7

"Mr. _Atterbury_ has lately forc'd a Dedication upon you, which favours too much of Presumption or Design; he has presum'd to surprize you with an unexpected Address, and appear...

5. Chapter 5

Bishop _Burnet_ celebrates, with the greatest Justness, our Taste, and indeed the Taste of the World in this Respect, when he relates how _Popery_ was then used among us; and he...

2. Chapter 2

Collins continued his attack upon Christian revelation in the _Scheme_. In the two years which separated this work from the earlier _Grounds and Reasons_, there occurred no chan...

1. Chapter 1

Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angele...

6. Chapter 6

It is said (as I have before observ'd) of my Lord Chancellor _Clarendon_, that "he had too much _Levity_ in his _Wit_[105], and that he did not always observe the _Decorum_ of h...

4. Chapter 4

II. _Secondly_, If it be a Fault in those reverend Divines, mention'd in the foregoing Article, to use _Irony_, _Drollery_, _Ridicule_, and _Satire_, in any Case; or if the Faul...

3. Chapter 3

Another of his Adversaries says, "[38]Peruse the Doctor Page after Page, you will find the Man all along in peevish Humour, when you see his Book brimfull of tart biting Ironies...

8. Chapter 8

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