English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to MacaulayCharles W P.F. Collier, 1910 - 421 Seiten |
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... , if that be denied me , long orations put in the mouths of great kings and captains , which it is certain they never pronounced . So that truly neither philosopher nor historiographer could at the THE DEFENSE OF POESY 9.
... , if that be denied me , long orations put in the mouths of great kings and captains , which it is certain they never pronounced . So that truly neither philosopher nor historiographer could at the THE DEFENSE OF POESY 9.
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... king Darius ' faithful servant , seeing his master long resisted by the rebellious Babylonians , feigned himself in extreme dis- grace of his king ; for verifying of which he caused his own nose and ears to be cut off , and so flying to ...
... king Darius ' faithful servant , seeing his master long resisted by the rebellious Babylonians , feigned himself in extreme dis- grace of his king ; for verifying of which he caused his own nose and ears to be cut off , and so flying to ...
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... kings fear to be tyrants , and tyrants manifest their tyrannical humors ; that with stirring the effects of admiration ... king who wields the sceptre with cruel sway fears those who fear him , the dread returns upon the author's head ...
... kings fear to be tyrants , and tyrants manifest their tyrannical humors ; that with stirring the effects of admiration ... king who wields the sceptre with cruel sway fears those who fear him , the dread returns upon the author's head ...
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... King Arthur will never displease a soldier ; but the quiddity of ens , and prima materia , will hardly agree with a corselet . And therefore , as I said in the begining , even Turks and Tartars are delighted with poets . Homer , a Greek ...
... King Arthur will never displease a soldier ; but the quiddity of ens , and prima materia , will hardly agree with a corselet . And therefore , as I said in the begining , even Turks and Tartars are delighted with poets . Homer , a Greek ...
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... king ; where Plato could do so little with Dionysius , that he himself of a philosopher was made a slave . But who should do thus , I confess , should requite the objections made against poets with like cavillations against philosophers ...
... king ; where Plato could do so little with Dionysius , that he himself of a philosopher was made a slave . But who should do thus , I confess , should requite the objections made against poets with like cavillations against philosophers ...
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Seite 315 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate...
Seite 364 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Seite 69 - As I looked upon him, he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from anything I had ever heard.
Seite 51 - Sufflaminandus erat," as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so, too! Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Ca:sar, thou dost me wrong.
Seite 18 - ... 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.
Seite 6 - 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.
Seite 203 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Seite 70 - Bridge, said I, standing in the Midst of the Tide. The Bridge thou seest, said he, is human Life, consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely Survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire Arches, with several broken Arches, which added to those that were entire, made up the Number about an hundred.
Seite 8 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called arckitektonike, 360 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...
Seite 23 - 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 cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?