The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 páginas |
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Página xxiv
... sort , and any censure passed upon Sidney for his transgression of good taste is but too apt to light upon the idol of the Renaissance humanists ( cf. note on 54 32 ) . It was hardly to be expected that this stumbling - block should be ...
... sort , and any censure passed upon Sidney for his transgression of good taste is but too apt to light upon the idol of the Renaissance humanists ( cf. note on 54 32 ) . It was hardly to be expected that this stumbling - block should be ...
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... sort is wrapped within the fold of the proposed subject , and takes not the free course of his own invention , whether they properly be poets or no let grammarians dispute , and go to the 10 third , indeed right poets , of whom chiefly ...
... sort is wrapped within the fold of the proposed subject , and takes not the free course of his own invention , whether they properly be poets or no let grammarians dispute , and go to the 10 third , indeed right poets , of whom chiefly ...
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... sort of verse they 5 liked best to write in , for indeed the greatest part of poets have apparelled their poetical inventions in that numberous kind of writing which is called verse . Indeed but apparelled , verse being but an ornament ...
... sort of verse they 5 liked best to write in , for indeed the greatest part of poets have apparelled their poetical inventions in that numberous kind of writing which is called verse . Indeed but apparelled , verse being but an ornament ...
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... sort that may be , so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to 5 be such a one . Now , as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right , and in arithmetic the odd as well as the even ; so in the actions of ...
... sort that may be , so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to 5 be such a one . Now , as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right , and in arithmetic the odd as well as the even ; so in the actions of ...
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... sort of judgments granted them , a whole sea of examples would present themselves : Alex- anders , Cæsars , Scipios , all favorers of poets ; Lælius , called the Roman Socrates , himself a poet , so as part of 20 Heautontimoroumenos in ...
... sort of judgments granted them , a whole sea of examples would present themselves : Alex- anders , Cæsars , Scipios , all favorers of poets ; Lælius , called the Roman Socrates , himself a poet , so as part of 20 Heautontimoroumenos in ...
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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...