The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 páginas |
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... poetical nor mean . Herodotos , at the middle point of the fifth century , shows the poetical element still prepon- derant .... The prose - writer of this epoch instinctively compares himself with the poet . . . . He does not care to be ...
... poetical nor mean . Herodotos , at the middle point of the fifth century , shows the poetical element still prepon- derant .... The prose - writer of this epoch instinctively compares himself with the poet . . . . He does not care to be ...
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... poetical character ; and this depended on two things the use of poetical words , and the use of sym- metry or assonance between clauses in such a way as to give a strongly marked prose - rhythm and to reproduce , as far as possible ...
... poetical character ; and this depended on two things the use of poetical words , and the use of sym- metry or assonance between clauses in such a way as to give a strongly marked prose - rhythm and to reproduce , as far as possible ...
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... pleasant , they will then appear to all men both easy and pleasant though they were rugged and difficult indeed . " Milton , like Sidney , had a keen æsthetic appreciation of the poetical parts of xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... pleasant , they will then appear to all men both easy and pleasant though they were rugged and difficult indeed . " Milton , like Sidney , had a keen æsthetic appreciation of the poetical parts of xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
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Philip Sidney Albert Stanburrough Cook. had a keen æsthetic appreciation of the poetical parts of the Bible , as appears from his estimate of the Song of Solomon and the Book of Revelation , concluding with the following words ( Reason ...
Philip Sidney Albert Stanburrough Cook. had a keen æsthetic appreciation of the poetical parts of the Bible , as appears from his estimate of the Song of Solomon and the Book of Revelation , concluding with the following words ( Reason ...
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... to speak of such matters that , if they had been set on the rack , they would never have confessed them ; besides his poetical describing the circumstances of their meetings , as the 35 EVERY COUNTRY HATH ITS POETS . well - ordering of.
... to speak of such matters that , if they had been set on the rack , they would never have confessed them ; besides his poetical describing the circumstances of their meetings , as the 35 EVERY COUNTRY HATH ITS POETS . well - ordering of.
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...