The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 strani |
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Stran xxvii
... has a rhythm , though not of the kind at which Gorgias aimed ; and the mere fact of the Greek ear becoming accustomed to look for a certain proportion between the parts of a sentence hastened the transition from INTRODUCTION . xxvii.
... has a rhythm , though not of the kind at which Gorgias aimed ; and the mere fact of the Greek ear becoming accustomed to look for a certain proportion between the parts of a sentence hastened the transition from INTRODUCTION . xxvii.
Stran xxxiv
... look upon truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed — that , whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now rugged and diffi- cult though they be indeed easy and pleasant , they will then appear to all men both easy and ...
... look upon truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed — that , whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now rugged and diffi- cult though they be indeed easy and pleasant , they will then appear to all men both easy and ...
Stran 6
... look a little deeper into it , shall find the end and working of 25 it such as , being rightly applied , deserveth not to be scourged out of the church of God . 20 But now let us see how the Greeks named it and how they deemed of it ...
... look a little deeper into it , shall find the end and working of 25 it such as , being rightly applied , deserveth not to be scourged out of the church of God . 20 But now let us see how the Greeks named it and how they deemed of it ...
Stran 7
... look upon the stars , and , by that he seeth , set down what order nature hath taken therein . So do the geome- trician and arithmetician in their divers sorts of quantities . So doth the musician in times tell you which by nature agree ...
... look upon the stars , and , by that he seeth , set down what order nature hath taken therein . So do the geome- trician and arithmetician in their divers sorts of quantities . So doth the musician in times tell you which by nature agree ...
Stran 10
... look of Lucretia , when she punished in herself another's fault ; wherein he painteth not Lucretia , whom he never saw , but painteth the outward beauty of such a virtue . For 20 these third be they which most properly do imitate toy ...
... look of Lucretia , when she punished in herself another's fault ; wherein he painteth not Lucretia , whom he never saw , but painteth the outward beauty of such a virtue . For 20 these third be they which most properly do imitate toy ...
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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...