The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of poesy; Selden's Table-talkHilliard & Brown, 1831 |
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... answer breathes far too much of the fierce and implacable spirit of his opponent . It is rather a cartel of defiance to his adversary , than a cool , deliberate refutation of the calumnies which had been advanced against the honor and ...
... answer breathes far too much of the fierce and implacable spirit of his opponent . It is rather a cartel of defiance to his adversary , than a cool , deliberate refutation of the calumnies which had been advanced against the honor and ...
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... answer to the name of poets . For Xenophon , who did imitate so excellently as to give us " effigiem justi imperii , " the por- traiture of a just empire , under the name of Cyrus , as Cicero saith of him , made therein an absolute ...
... answer to the name of poets . For Xenophon , who did imitate so excellently as to give us " effigiem justi imperii , " the por- traiture of a just empire , under the name of Cyrus , as Cicero saith of him , made therein an absolute ...
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... answer is manifest : that if he stand upon that was , as if he should argue , because it rained yesterday therefore it should rain to- day ; then , indeed , hath it some advantage to a gross conceit . But if he know an example only ...
... answer is manifest : that if he stand upon that was , as if he should argue , because it rained yesterday therefore it should rain to- day ; then , indeed , hath it some advantage to a gross conceit . But if he know an example only ...
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... answered to one that misliked the show of such persons ) so manacled , as they little animate folks to follow them . But history being captived to the truth of a foolish world , is many times a terror from well - doing , and an ...
... answered to one that misliked the show of such persons ) so manacled , as they little animate folks to follow them . But history being captived to the truth of a foolish world , is many times a terror from well - doing , and an ...
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... answer ; only thus much now is to be said , that the comedy is an imita- tation of the common errors of our life , which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be ; so as it is impossible that any beholder can ...
... answer ; only thus much now is to be said , that the comedy is an imita- tation of the common errors of our life , which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be ; so as it is impossible that any beholder can ...
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abused act of parliament Æneas Æsop amongst Answer Aristotle Ben Jonson betwixt bishops called canon law canons cause Christ Christian church church of Rome civil clergy common confess conscience court DEFENCE OF POESY delight divine doth earl England English excellent father fault gentleman give govern Greek hath hear honor imitation Jews JOHN SELDEN judge justice of peace keep king king's knowledge land laugh learning live lord man's matter means ment mind minister nature never oath opinion Papists parliament person philosopher physician Plato play Plutarch poetical poetry poets pope preach presbyters priest prince Protestants queen reason religion rest Rome saith Selden Sir Philip Sidney speak TABLE-TALK teach tell thing thou tion tithes true truly truth unto verse virtue whereof words write
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Sida 29 - ... 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...
Sida 288 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Sida 9 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth: to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture : with this end, to teach and delight; of this have been three several kinds.
Sida xxxvi - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Sida 39 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Sida 14 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called ttfjXiTrx-covixi], which stands, as I think, in the knowledge of a man's self; in the ethic and politic consideration, with the end of well-doing, and not of well-knowing only...
Sida 16 - 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, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality...
Sida 19 - Now doth the peerless poet perform both; for whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he giveth a perfect picture of it in some one by whom he presupposeth it was done, so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example.
Sida 67 - Afric of the other, and so many other underkingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.
Sida 179 - KINO is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake : just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat...