The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of poesy; Selden's Table-talkHilliard & Brown, 1831 |
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... appears to have been regarded as the glass of fashion and the mould of form , " as the 66 A * The following memoir is chiefly abstracted from the Life prefixed to Gray's edition of Sir Philip Sidney's Miscellaneous Works , published at ...
... appears to have been regarded as the glass of fashion and the mould of form , " as the 66 A * The following memoir is chiefly abstracted from the Life prefixed to Gray's edition of Sir Philip Sidney's Miscellaneous Works , published at ...
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... appears , from the accounts of his bi- ographers , to have uniformly acquired the affection and permanent esteem of the many virtuous and learned persons whom he happened to encounter in the course of his journeyings ; and , from among ...
... appears , from the accounts of his bi- ographers , to have uniformly acquired the affection and permanent esteem of the many virtuous and learned persons whom he happened to encounter in the course of his journeyings ; and , from among ...
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... appears neither to have made any advance in his public career , nor to have held any office of trust or honor in the state , except the trifling and merely * This accomplished lady evinced no inconsiderable poetic capacity , and is well ...
... appears neither to have made any advance in his public career , nor to have held any office of trust or honor in the state , except the trifling and merely * This accomplished lady evinced no inconsiderable poetic capacity , and is well ...
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... appears ; for he tells us himself , in his dedication to the countess , that it was written on loose sheets of paper , most of it in her presence , and the rest sent to her in the same way as fast as it was done ; and he is alleged to ...
... appears ; for he tells us himself , in his dedication to the countess , that it was written on loose sheets of paper , most of it in her presence , and the rest sent to her in the same way as fast as it was done ; and he is alleged to ...
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... appears to have been increased in attraction by prospects of peerages and grants , it does not seem to have in- spired Sir Philip with any inclination to embrace it . During the subsequent year , our author became united in marriage to ...
... appears to have been increased in attraction by prospects of peerages and grants , it does not seem to have in- spired Sir Philip with any inclination to embrace it . During the subsequent year , our author became united in marriage to ...
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abused act of parliament Æneas Æsop amongst Answer Aristotle Ben Jonson betwixt bishops called canon law canons cause Christ Christian church church of Rome civil clergy common confess conscience court DEFENCE OF POESY delight divine doth earl England English excellent father fault gentleman give govern Greek hath hear honor imitation Jews JOHN SELDEN judge justice of peace keep king king's knowledge land laugh learning live lord man's matter means ment mind minister nature never oath opinion Papists parliament person philosopher physician Plato play Plutarch poetical poetry poets pope preach presbyters priest prince Protestants queen reason religion rest Rome saith Selden Sir Philip Sidney speak TABLE-TALK teach tell thing thou tion tithes true truly truth unto verse virtue whereof words write
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Страница 29 - ... 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 288 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Страница 9 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth: to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture : with this end, to teach and delight; of this have been three several kinds.
Страница xxxvi - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Страница 39 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Страница 14 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called ttfjXiTrx-covixi], which stands, as I think, in the knowledge of a man's self; in the ethic and politic consideration, with the end of well-doing, and not of well-knowing only...
Страница 16 - The historian scarcely giveth leisure to the moralist to say so much, but that he, loaden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality...
Страница 19 - Now doth the peerless poet perform both; for whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he giveth a perfect picture of it in some one by whom he presupposeth it was done, so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example.
Страница 67 - Afric of the other, and so many other underkingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.
Страница 179 - KINO is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake : just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat...