The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 páginas |
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Página xvii
... round and clean composition of the sentence , and the sweet falling of the clauses , and the vary- ing and illustration of their works with tropes and figures , than after the weight of matter , worth of subject INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... round and clean composition of the sentence , and the sweet falling of the clauses , and the vary- ing and illustration of their works with tropes and figures , than after the weight of matter , worth of subject INTRODUCTION . xvii.
Página xxxiii
... sweet sounds . In both the New Life and the Banquet ( Convito ) Dante gives lengthy exposi- tions of a few poems , revealing by analysis the fundamental truths which determined the structure and even the orna- ment of each . In the New ...
... sweet sounds . In both the New Life and the Banquet ( Convito ) Dante gives lengthy exposi- tions of a few poems , revealing by analysis the fundamental truths which determined the structure and even the orna- ment of each . In the New ...
Página xxxiv
... sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it " ( see 23 15 ff . ) , are we not reminded of Milton's words in the Reason of Church Government : " Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue through all ...
... sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it " ( see 23 15 ff . ) , are we not reminded of Milton's words in the Reason of Church Government : " Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue through all ...
Página xxxv
... sweet pills to be swallowed down , and make the taste of virtuous documents harsh and sour ( cf. 45 20 ff . , 23 29 ff . ) . These comparisons illustrate the consensus of opinion among men of different centuries , but substantially ...
... sweet pills to be swallowed down , and make the taste of virtuous documents harsh and sour ( cf. 45 20 ff . , 23 29 ff . ) . These comparisons illustrate the consensus of opinion among men of different centuries , but substantially ...
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... sweet- ness the wild untamed wits to an admiration of knowl- edge . So as Amphion was said to move stones with his 5 poetry to build Thebes , and Orpheus to be listened to by beasts , indeed stony and beastly people . So among the ...
... sweet- ness the wild untamed wits to an admiration of knowl- edge . So as Amphion was said to move stones with his 5 poetry to build Thebes , and Orpheus to be listened to by beasts , indeed stony and beastly people . So among the ...
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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...