The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 страници |
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... ancient times and the romantic pro- duction of the modern era , as a humanist actuated by ethi- cal convictions , as a man of affairs discharging the function of the scholar with the imaginative insight of the poet . To assist in ...
... ancient times and the romantic pro- duction of the modern era , as a humanist actuated by ethi- cal convictions , as a man of affairs discharging the function of the scholar with the imaginative insight of the poet . To assist in ...
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... ancients was so abun- dant a source of illustration to the moralists and essayists of the sixteenth century . It is for his store of anecdote and his living traits of the great men of antiquity that Sidney chiefly uses him , though it ...
... ancients was so abun- dant a source of illustration to the moralists and essayists of the sixteenth century . It is for his store of anecdote and his living traits of the great men of antiquity that Sidney chiefly uses him , though it ...
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... ancient Roman State . If the style of the master partakes somewhat too much of Asiatic grandil- oquence and floridity , and somewhat too little of Attic re- finement and moderation , we should not be greatly surprised if we find the ...
... ancient Roman State . If the style of the master partakes somewhat too much of Asiatic grandil- oquence and floridity , and somewhat too little of Attic re- finement and moderation , we should not be greatly surprised if we find the ...
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... ancient world . He was to Sidney a mine of informa- tion about all sorts of subjects - lives of men , traits of manners , and philosophies - besides supplying him with more than one epigrammatic sally which only needed to be translated ...
... ancient world . He was to Sidney a mine of informa- tion about all sorts of subjects - lives of men , traits of manners , and philosophies - besides supplying him with more than one epigrammatic sally which only needed to be translated ...
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... ancient writings of a relatively late period , and the commonplaces concerning them are therefore to be expected in ... ancients Sidney is frequently inaccurate . We should not infer that in this respect he is singular among the ...
... ancient writings of a relatively late period , and the commonplaces concerning them are therefore to be expected in ... ancients Sidney is frequently inaccurate . We should not infer that in this respect he is singular among the ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...