 | Cedric Ellsworth Smith - 1928 - 478 страници
...introduce you to yourself? "The Historian . . . loden with mouse-eaten records, authorising himself for the most part upon other histories, whose greatest...present age, and yet better knowing how this world goeth than how his own wit runneth; curious for antiquities and inquisitive of novelties, a wonder... | |
 | Marion Ansel Taylor - 1973 - 260 страници
...more to exalt his muse, poetry: The historian, loden with old mouse-eaten records; authorizing himself for the most part upon other histories, whose greatest...writers and to pick truth out of partiality; better 9. "Thomas N. [Thomas Norton] to the Reader," second preface to Richard Grafton, Chronicles, 1569,... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson - 1984 - 308 страници
...citations are from the 1661 edition. 41 Compare Sidney's attack on the historian as "authorising himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest...differing writers and to pick truth out of partiality." An Apology for Poetry, ed. Geoffrey Shepherd (London, 1965), p. 105. 42 See Benjamin Boyce, "History... | |
 | Jan Adrianus van Dorsten, Dominic Baker-Smith, Arthur F. Kinney - 1986 - 268 страници
...the (individual, particularizing) historian, 'laden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundations of hearsay; having much ado to accord differing writers and to pick truth out of their... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - 1988 - 387 страници
...Apologiefor Poetrie characterizes him as "loaden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest...accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality."31 The historian is constrained by 96 his burden of facts; "many times he must tell events,... | |
 | Patrick J. Gallacher, Helen Damico - 1989 - 308 страници
...characterized the historian of his age as 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 . . . better acquainted with one thousand years ago than with the present age . . . curious for antiquities,... | |
 | Philip G. Cohen - 1991 - 244 страници
...with Sir Philip Sidney, of the historian as "loaden with old mouse-eaten records, authorising himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest...are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay" (105). Textuality is inescapable it seems; even birth and death certif1cates are writings that offer... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 страници
...not the truth but things like the truth'. Sidney denigrates the historian for 'authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest...authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay . . .' and because he 'must tell events whereof he can yield no cause; or if he do, it must be poetically',... | |
 | Wayne Erickson - 1996 - 168 страници
...the moralist philosopher at his own game by manipulating his "mouseeaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest...are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay." This historian "denieth, in great chafe, that any man for teaching of virtue, and virtuous actions... | |
 | George Frost Kennan - 1997 - 358 страници
...I quote him) as a man "laden with old mouseeaten records, authorizing himself for the most part on other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age . . . curious for antiquities,... | |
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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,... 
