 | Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, Roberta Wood, Nicholas Webb - 2000 - 428 страници
...him, and more happy that can apply what he doth understand. On the other side, the historian, want1ng the precept, is so tied, not to what should be but...general reason of things, that his example draweth no necessary consequence, and therefore a less fruitful doctrine. Now doth the peerless poet perform both:... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 страници
...a man would grow old before he could learn the philosopher's lessons. The historian, for his part, 'is so tied, not to what should be but to what is,...general reason of things, that his example draweth no necessary consequence, and therefore a less fruitful doctrine'. Only 'the peerless poet' manages to... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 страници
...was making the case for fiction as more useful than history, dismissed such claims. The historian was tied 'not to what should be but to what is', 'to the...particular truth of things and not to the general reason of things'.1 He might as well have said that history is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing. That... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 страници
...the evidence and ascribing to Caesar a new telos. Refusing the passive role of Sidney's historian— "so tied not to what should be but to what is, to...of things and not to the general reason of things" 16 —Brutus instead plays the poet and forces the awkwardly sui generis Caesar into the generic catastrophe... | |
 | Beverley C. Southgate - 2001 - 224 страници
...poetry not least because the poor historian once more is so limited, 'tyed, not to what shoulde bee, but to what is; to the particular truth of things, and not to the general reason of things'.10 This Aristotelian distinction between history and poetry has in our own time been subject... | |
 | James P. Carley - 2001 - 684 страници
...historian was more restricted in what he could write than the poet; the historian, Sidney says, 'is tied, not to what should be, but to what is, to the particular truth of things'; he is 'captivated to the truth of a foolish world'.61 These limitations on the historian apparently... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 2002 - 182 страници
...more happy that can apply what he doth understand. On the other side, the historian wanting [lacking] the precept, is so tied, not to what should be but...general reason of things, that his example draweth no necessary consequence, and therefore a less fruitful doctrine. Now doth the peerless poet perform both:... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 2002 - 286 страници
...who may understand him, and more happy that can apply what he doth understand. On the other side, the historian, wanting the precept, is so tied, not to...and not to the general reason of things, that his 20 example draweth no necessary consequence, and therefore a less fruitful doctrine. Now doth the peerless... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 2002 - 184 страници
...more happy that can apply what he doth understand. On the other side, the historian wanting [lacking] the precept, is so tied, not to what should be but...to the general reason of things, that his example ciraweth no necessary consequence, and therefore a less fruitful doctrine. Now doth the peerless poet... | |
 | Donald R. Kelley, David Harris Sacks - 1997 - 408 страници
...useless, since he was the ineluctable prisoner of his facts, "tied, not to what should be, but to what is, the particular truth of things and not to the general reason of things." If it were only a matter of having a story told truly rather than falsely, one would of course choose... | |
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On the other side, the historian, wanting the precept, is so tied, not to what should be but to what is, to the particular truth of things, and not to the general reason of things, that his example draweth no necessary consequence, and therefore a less... 
