The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 strani |
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Stran xiv
... date may be added the opinion of Collier ( Hist . Eng . Dram . Poetry , 2. 422-3 and 3. 374 ) , who believes it to have been written " about the year 1583. " What was The Defense was not published till 1595 , and then χίν INTRODUCTION .
... date may be added the opinion of Collier ( Hist . Eng . Dram . Poetry , 2. 422-3 and 3. 374 ) , who believes it to have been written " about the year 1583. " What was The Defense was not published till 1595 , and then χίν INTRODUCTION .
Stran xvii
... opinion you cannot do better than give careful study to all 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 ...
... opinion you cannot do better than give careful study to all 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 ...
Stran xx
... opinion concerning Sidney's character would accuse him of deliberate dishonesty , and hence we have no alternative except to suppose that his verbal memory was at times untrustworthy . All things considered , the accu- racy of his ...
... opinion concerning Sidney's character would accuse him of deliberate dishonesty , and hence we have no alternative except to suppose that his verbal memory was at times untrustworthy . All things considered , the accu- racy of his ...
Stran xxi
... opinion on many points between himself and Cervantes , and , in a less degree , be- tween himself and Lope de Vega . Of his love for all that illustrated the riches of the English tongue , and of his ardent desire that the glories of ...
... opinion on many points between himself and Cervantes , and , in a less degree , be- tween himself and Lope de Vega . Of his love for all that illustrated the riches of the English tongue , and of his ardent desire that the glories of ...
Stran xxiii
... opinion concerning Sidney's style is based upon the Arcadia , and it is in this , rather than in the De- fense , that we should expect to find the distinctive marks of Euphuism . Notwithstanding , Landmann denies that Sidney belongs to ...
... opinion concerning Sidney's style is based upon the Arcadia , and it is in this , rather than in the De- fense , that we should expect to find the distinctive marks of Euphuism . Notwithstanding , Landmann denies that Sidney belongs to ...
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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...