The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for PoetryGinn, 1890 - 143 páginas |
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... his diction is rich and varied ; the fitting word is chosen with an apparent ease that implies a great power over the language . MINTO , Manual of English Prose Literature . THE DEFENSE OF POESY OTHERWISE KNOWN AS AN APOLOGY FOR.
... his diction is rich and varied ; the fitting word is chosen with an apparent ease that implies a great power over the language . MINTO , Manual of English Prose Literature . THE DEFENSE OF POESY OTHERWISE KNOWN AS AN APOLOGY FOR.
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... all the praise uttered in prose , and still more extensively in verse , by Sir Philip Sid- ney's contemporaries or his immediate successors . " ; 2. DATE OF COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION . As Sidney refers INTRODUCTION . xi.
... all the praise uttered in prose , and still more extensively in verse , by Sir Philip Sid- ney's contemporaries or his immediate successors . " ; 2. DATE OF COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION . As Sidney refers INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... prose . - The employment of such compound words as are fitted to heighten the style of dithyrambic and other elevated poe- try , was interdicted to prose on the authority of Aristotle . The formation of these compounds is alien to the ...
... prose . - The employment of such compound words as are fitted to heighten the style of dithyrambic and other elevated poe- try , was interdicted to prose on the authority of Aristotle . The formation of these compounds is alien to the ...
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... prose never accepted them . Not so in England . Here they were soon rendered popular in consequence of their adoption by the dramatists , and even earlier began to appear in prose fiction . These com- pounds form one feature of ...
... prose never accepted them . Not so in England . Here they were soon rendered popular in consequence of their adoption by the dramatists , and even earlier began to appear in prose fiction . These com- pounds form one feature of ...
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... prose . There is a prose of light only , and there is another of light and heat conjoined . That of Sidney belongs to the latter class . It seeks to persuade , and is in that sense oratorical ; Hallam even calls it declamatory . Yet ...
... prose . There is a prose of light only , and there is another of light and heat conjoined . That of Sidney belongs to the latter class . It seeks to persuade , and is in that sense oratorical ; Hallam even calls it declamatory . Yet ...
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry Philip Sidney Visualização integral - 1890 |
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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
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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...