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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... virtues , ex- ercises , studies , and actions : he is a rare ornament of his age , the very formular that all well - disposed young gentlemen of our court do form also their manners and life by . In truth , I speak it without flattery ...
... virtues , ex- ercises , studies , and actions : he is a rare ornament of his age , the very formular that all well - disposed young gentlemen of our court do form also their manners and life by . In truth , I speak it without flattery ...
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... virtues . He breathed his last sigh in the arms of one whom he had long loved , his faithful secretary and bosom companion , Mr. William Temple . His address to his brother when he bade him a final adieu , is a noble outpouring of the ...
... virtues . He breathed his last sigh in the arms of one whom he had long loved , his faithful secretary and bosom companion , Mr. William Temple . His address to his brother when he bade him a final adieu , is a noble outpouring of the ...
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... virtue his encouragement , every art his due , every writer his desert , ' cause none more virtuous , witty , or learned than thyself . But thou art dead in thy grave , and hast left too few successors of thy glory , too few to cherish ...
... virtue his encouragement , every art his due , every writer his desert , ' cause none more virtuous , witty , or learned than thyself . But thou art dead in thy grave , and hast left too few successors of thy glory , too few to cherish ...
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... the most lively pattern of virtue , and the dar- ling of the learned world . This is that Sidney , who as Providence seems to have sent him into the world to give the present age a specimen of the ancients xliv LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... the most lively pattern of virtue , and the dar- ling of the learned world . This is that Sidney , who as Providence seems to have sent him into the world to give the present age a specimen of the ancients xliv LIFE AND WRITINGS.
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... virtue comes to perfection it is gone in a trice , and the best things are never lasting . Rest then in peace , O Sidney , ( if I may be allowed this address , ) we will not celebrate your memory with tears , but admiration ; whatever ...
... virtue comes to perfection it is gone in a trice , and the best things are never lasting . Rest then in peace , O Sidney , ( if I may be allowed this address , ) we will not celebrate your memory with tears , but admiration ; whatever ...
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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...