The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 strani |
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Stran xi
... taken to a house in the Minories , without Aldgate , where it remained until the public funeral at St. Paul's on Feb. 16 , 1587. " Volumes , " says Fox Bourne ( Memoir , p . 534 ) , " would be filled were I to collect all the praise ...
... taken to a house in the Minories , without Aldgate , where it remained until the public funeral at St. Paul's on Feb. 16 , 1587. " Volumes , " says Fox Bourne ( Memoir , p . 534 ) , " would be filled were I to collect all the praise ...
Stran xiii
... taken from Bruno's Heroic Rapture , which was dedicated to Sidney ( quoted in Frith's Life of Giordano Bruno , p . 125 ) : " For I am assured that Nature has endowed me with an inward sense by which I reason from the beauty before my ...
... taken from Bruno's Heroic Rapture , which was dedicated to Sidney ( quoted in Frith's Life of Giordano Bruno , p . 125 ) : " For I am assured that Nature has endowed me with an inward sense by which I reason from the beauty before my ...
Stran xxiii
... taken from Pliny ; in other words , the most characteristic elements of Euphuism . " The statement concerning the similes from natural and unnatural history is confirmed by the quotation from Drayton , cited in the note to 54 12. In ...
... taken from Pliny ; in other words , the most characteristic elements of Euphuism . " The statement concerning the similes from natural and unnatural history is confirmed by the quotation from Drayton , cited in the note to 54 12. In ...
Stran xxxviii
... be accepted as Sidney's guide in the concep- tion and arrangement of some of the minor topics of the Defense . Finally , his threefold division of poetry is taken . from Scaliger's Poetics ( see note on 9 27 ) xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
... be accepted as Sidney's guide in the concep- tion and arrangement of some of the minor topics of the Defense . Finally , his threefold division of poetry is taken . from Scaliger's Poetics ( see note on 9 27 ) xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
Stran 4
... taken a great passport of poetry , which in all nations at this day , where learning 20 flourisheth not , is plain to be seen ; in all which they have some feeling of poetry . In Turkey , besides their lawgiving divines they have no ...
... taken a great passport of poetry , which in all nations at this day , where learning 20 flourisheth not , is plain to be seen ; in all which they have some feeling of poetry . In Turkey , besides their lawgiving divines they have no ...
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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...