The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 strani |
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Stran xv
... Plutarch's ethical sentiments , except in so far as they were condemned or superseded by the purer tenets of Christianity . Sidney's favorite among the Latin prosaists was unques- tionably Cicero INTRODUCTION . XV Learning.
... Plutarch's ethical sentiments , except in so far as they were condemned or superseded by the purer tenets of Christianity . Sidney's favorite among the Latin prosaists was unques- tionably Cicero INTRODUCTION . XV Learning.
Stran xvi
... Cicero . To him , as to the men of the literary Renaissance generally , Cicero was the unrivalled model of style . Sidney's ear was charmed by the harmonious ca- dences of the great rhetorician , while his imagination was fired by Cicero's ...
... Cicero . To him , as to the men of the literary Renaissance generally , Cicero was the unrivalled model of style . Sidney's ear was charmed by the harmonious ca- dences of the great rhetorician , while his imagination was fired by Cicero's ...
Stran xvii
... Cicero's letters , not only for the sake of the graceful Latin , but also on account of the weighty truths which they contain .... But take care of slipping into the heresy of those who believe that Cicero- nianism is the summum bonum ...
... Cicero's letters , not only for the sake of the graceful Latin , but also on account of the weighty truths which they contain .... But take care of slipping into the heresy of those who believe that Cicero- nianism is the summum bonum ...
Stran xviii
... Cicero was an almost unmixed benefit to Sidney . More than any other author except Plu- tarch , Cicero seems to have acquainted him with the history of the ancient world . He was to Sidney a mine of informa- tion about all sorts of ...
... Cicero was an almost unmixed benefit to Sidney . More than any other author except Plu- tarch , Cicero seems to have acquainted him with the history of the ancient world . He was to Sidney a mine of informa- tion about all sorts of ...
Stran xx
... Cicero differed materially from that now accepted , this variation must be laid to the account of dishonesty or to that of a treacherous memory . No one who has formed an opinion concerning Sidney's character would accuse him of ...
... Cicero differed materially from that now accepted , this variation must be laid to the account of dishonesty or to that of a treacherous memory . No one who has formed an opinion concerning Sidney's character would accuse him of ...
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Æneas Æneid Æsop Alexander ancient Aristotle Astrophel and Stella Augustan Histories authority beauty Boethius called Cato Cicero comedy conceit Crantor Cypselus Cyrus Dante Defense of Poetry delight divine doth edition English Ennius Ethics Euphuism Euripides evil example excellent feigned Fox Bourne giveth Gosson Greek Harington Haslewood hath Hesiod Hipponax Hist historian Homer honor Horace imitation Jowett kind King knowledge language Latin learning live Livy Lucretius Mahaffy maketh matter metre mind misliked moral nature never omits Orator Orpheus Periander Petrarch philosopher Pindar Plato Plautus play Plutarch poem poesy poet poetical praise prose Psalms Quintilian reason rime Roman Scaliger scholar scorn Shak Shakespeare Sidney's song Sonnet speak speech Spenser story style sweet Symonds teach teacheth things tion tragedy translation true truly truth unto verse Virgil virtue words writing Xenophon ΙΟ
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Stran 94 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks : It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Stran 121 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Stran 92 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Stran 70 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Stran 101 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth' live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Stran 23 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Stran 59 - Townfolks my strength ; a daintier judge applies His praise to sleight which from good use doth rise ; Some lucky wits impute it but to chance...
Stran xxxiv - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Stran 51 - Aristotle, is that they stir laughter in sinful things, which are rather execrable than ridiculous ; or in miserable, which are rather to be pitied than scorned. For what is it to make folks gape at a wretched beggar...
Stran 7 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow, in effect, into another nature, in making * things either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite ^ anew, forms such as never were in nature...