The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 strani |
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Stran xxxii
... truly perfect . But , as he forgets earthly interests and is rapt in the divine , the vulgar deem him mad , and rebuke him ; they do not see that he is inspired . Thus far I have been speaking of the fourth and last kind of madness ...
... truly perfect . But , as he forgets earthly interests and is rapt in the divine , the vulgar deem him mad , and rebuke him ; they do not see that he is inspired . Thus far I have been speaking of the fourth and last kind of madness ...
Stran 2
... truly , to all them that , professing learning , inveigh against poetry , may justly be objected that they 20 go very near to ungratefulness , to seek to deface that which , in the noblest nations and languages that are known , hath ...
... truly , to all them that , professing learning , inveigh against poetry , may justly be objected that they 20 go very near to ungratefulness , to seek to deface that which , in the noblest nations and languages that are known , hath ...
Stran 3
... truly even Plato whosoever well considereth , shall find that in the body of his work though the inside and strength were phi- losophy , the skin as it were and beauty depended most 30 of poetry . For all standeth upon dialogues ...
... truly even Plato whosoever well considereth , shall find that in the body of his work though the inside and strength were phi- losophy , the skin as it were and beauty depended most 30 of poetry . For all standeth upon dialogues ...
Stran 4
... truly neither philosopher nor historiographer could at the first have entered into the gates of popular judgments , if they had not taken a great passport of poetry , which in all nations at this day , where learning 20 flourisheth not ...
... truly neither philosopher nor historiographer could at the first have entered into the gates of popular judgments , if they had not taken a great passport of poetry , which in all nations at this day , where learning 20 flourisheth not ...
Stran 6
... truly now having named him , I fear I seem to profane that holy name , applying it to poetry , which is among us thrown down to so ridiculous an esti- mation . But they that with quiet judgments will look a little deeper into it , shall ...
... truly now having named him , I fear I seem to profane that holy name , applying it to poetry , which is among us thrown down to so ridiculous an esti- mation . But they that with quiet judgments will look a little deeper into it , shall ...
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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...