The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 páginas |
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... Roman State . If the style of the master partakes somewhat too much of Asiatic grandil- oquence and floridity , and somewhat too little of Attic re- finement and moderation , we should not be greatly surprised if we find the pupil ...
... Roman State . If the style of the master partakes somewhat too much of Asiatic grandil- oquence and floridity , and somewhat too little of Attic re- finement and moderation , we should not be greatly surprised if we find the pupil ...
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... Roman Poets of the Republic , p . 382 ) : " His abundant use of compound words , most of which fell into disuse in the Augus- tan age , [ was a product ] of the same creative force which enabled Plautus and Ennius to add largely to the ...
... Roman Poets of the Republic , p . 382 ) : " His abundant use of compound words , most of which fell into disuse in the Augus- tan age , [ was a product ] of the same creative force which enabled Plautus and Ennius to add largely to the ...
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... Roman and Greek gave divine names unto it , the one of " prophesying , " the other of " making , " and that indeed that name of " making " is fit for him , considering that whereas other arts retain them- 25 selves within their subject ...
... Roman and Greek gave divine names unto it , the one of " prophesying , " the other of " making , " and that indeed that name of " making " is fit for him , considering that whereas other arts retain them- 25 selves within their subject ...
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... Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers ' roll . And therefore though Cato misliked his unmustered person , 25 he misliked not his work . And if he had , Scipio Nasica , judged by common ...
... Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers ' roll . And therefore though Cato misliked his unmustered person , 25 he misliked not his work . And if he had , Scipio Nasica , judged by common ...
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... Roman Socrates , himself a poet , so as part of 20 Heautontimoroumenos in Terence was supposed to be made by him . And even the Greek Socrates , whom Apollo confirmed to be the only wise man , is said to have spent part of his old time ...
... Roman Socrates , himself a poet , so as part of 20 Heautontimoroumenos in Terence was supposed to be made by him . And even the Greek Socrates , whom Apollo confirmed to be the only wise man , is said to have spent part of his old time ...
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry Philip Sidney Visualização integral - 1890 |
The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry Philip Sidney Visualização integral - 1890 |
The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry Philip Sidney Visualização integral - 1890 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Æneas Æneid Æsop Alexander ancient Aristotle Astrophel and Stella Augustan Histories authority beauty Boethius called Cato Cicero comedy conceit Crantor Cypselus Cyrus Dante Defense of Poetry delight divine doth edition English Ennius Ethics Euphuism Euripides evil example excellent feigned Fox Bourne giveth Gosson Greek Harington Haslewood hath Hesiod Hipponax Hist historian Homer honor Horace imitation Jowett kind King knowledge language Latin learning live Livy Lucretius Mahaffy maketh matter metre mind misliked moral nature never omits Orator Orpheus Periander Petrarch philosopher Pindar Plato Plautus play Plutarch poem poesy poet poetical praise prose Psalms Quintilian reason rime Roman Scaliger scholar scorn Shak Shakespeare Sidney's song Sonnet speak speech Spenser story style sweet Symonds teach teacheth things tion tragedy translation true truly truth unto verse Virgil virtue words writing Xenophon ΙΟ
Passagens conhecidas
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...