The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 25
Página xviii
... means insen- sible to the superior loftiness and naturalness of Homer . As a highly educated man of that day , he knew well his Horace and Ovid , the dramatists Plautus and Terence , the satirists Juvenal and Persius , the historians ...
... means insen- sible to the superior loftiness and naturalness of Homer . As a highly educated man of that day , he knew well his Horace and Ovid , the dramatists Plautus and Terence , the satirists Juvenal and Persius , the historians ...
Página xxvii
... mean . Herodotos , at the middle point of the fifth century , shows the poetical element still prepon- derant .... The prose - writer of this epoch instinctively compares himself with the poet . . . . He does not care to be simply right ...
... mean . Herodotos , at the middle point of the fifth century , shows the poetical element still prepon- derant .... The prose - writer of this epoch instinctively compares himself with the poet . . . . He does not care to be simply right ...
Página xxx
... means true that every philosopher is necessarily a poet . We may now return to our point of departure in Shelley's definition . " A poet , " he says , " participates in the eternal , the infinite , and the one . " But may we not with ...
... means true that every philosopher is necessarily a poet . We may now return to our point of departure in Shelley's definition . " A poet , " he says , " participates in the eternal , the infinite , and the one . " But may we not with ...
Página xxxvii
... means that correspondence of the ultimate and penultimate syllables which it is customary to use ; generally speaking , it means any speech which , regulated by number and time , falls into rhythmic consonance . " These correspondences ...
... means that correspondence of the ultimate and penultimate syllables which it is customary to use ; generally speaking , it means any speech which , regulated by number and time , falls into rhythmic consonance . " These correspondences ...
Página xlv
... means should not be suffered to obscure the end , 54 16-35 . d . Apology for the digression , 55 1–10 . 3. The English language favorable to poetry , 55 10-56 35 . a . Equal to all demands upon it , 55 10-12 . b . Its composite nature ...
... means should not be suffered to obscure the end , 54 16-35 . d . Apology for the digression , 55 1–10 . 3. The English language favorable to poetry , 55 10-56 35 . a . Equal to all demands upon it , 55 10-12 . b . Its composite nature ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
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...