The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 strani |
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Stran xviii
... Plautus and Terence , the satirists Juvenal and Persius , the historians Livy , Suetonius , Justin , and even the authors of the Augustan Histories , mor- alists like Seneca and the Pseudo - Cato , and perhaps Lucre- tius and Quintilian ...
... Plautus and Terence , the satirists Juvenal and Persius , the historians Livy , Suetonius , Justin , and even the authors of the Augustan Histories , mor- alists like Seneca and the Pseudo - Cato , and perhaps Lucre- tius and Quintilian ...
Stran xxv
... Plautus and Ennius to add largely to the resources of the Latin tongue . In him , more than in any Latin poet before or after him , we meet with phrases too full of imagi- native life to be in perfect keeping with the more sober tones ...
... Plautus and Ennius to add largely to the resources of the Latin tongue . In him , more than in any Latin poet before or after him , we meet with phrases too full of imagi- native life to be in perfect keeping with the more sober tones ...
Stran 49
... Plautus have in one place done amiss , let us hit with him , and not miss with him . But they will say , How then shall we set forth a story which containeth 5 both many places and many times ? And do they not know that a tragedy is ...
... Plautus have in one place done amiss , let us hit with him , and not miss with him . But they will say , How then shall we set forth a story which containeth 5 both many places and many times ? And do they not know that a tragedy is ...
Stran 95
... Plautus , in whom the master , if he wishes to bring a slave to terms , threatens to send him to labor in the mill . Thus Terence , Andria 1. 2. 28 : “ I'll hand you over , Davus , beaten with stripes , to the mill , even to your dying ...
... Plautus , in whom the master , if he wishes to bring a slave to terms , threatens to send him to labor in the mill . Thus Terence , Andria 1. 2. 28 : “ I'll hand you over , Davus , beaten with stripes , to the mill , even to your dying ...
Stran 120
... Plautus . Possibly referring to the Captivi , in which some commentators have detected a violation of the unity of time . Between the end of the second and the beginning of the fourth act , one of the characters , Philocrates , " has ...
... Plautus . Possibly referring to the Captivi , in which some commentators have detected a violation of the unity of time . Between the end of the second and the beginning of the fourth act , one of the characters , Philocrates , " has ...
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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...