Sir Philip Sydney's Defense of Poetry: And Observations on Poetry and Eloquence, from the Discoveries of Ben Jonson |
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... authorities to fhew the long time they had po- ets , which they called Bards , fo through all the conquefts of Romans , Saxons , Danes , and Nor- mans , fome of whom did feek to ruin all memo- ry of learning from among them , yet do ...
... authorities to fhew the long time they had po- ets , which they called Bards , fo through all the conquefts of Romans , Saxons , Danes , and Nor- mans , fome of whom did feek to ruin all memo- ry of learning from among them , yet do ...
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... authorities are built upon the notable found- ation Hearfay , having much ado to accord dif- fering writers , and to pick truth out of partia- Hity ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago , than with the prefent age , and yet ...
... authorities are built upon the notable found- ation Hearfay , having much ado to accord dif- fering writers , and to pick truth out of partia- Hity ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago , than with the prefent age , and yet ...
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... authority of his pen . Which , if I be asked , What Poets have done fo ? as I might well name fome , so yet , say I , and say again , I speak of the art , and not of the artificer . Now , to that which commonly is attributed to the ...
... authority of his pen . Which , if I be asked , What Poets have done fo ? as I might well name fome , so yet , say I , and say again , I speak of the art , and not of the artificer . Now , to that which commonly is attributed to the ...
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... authorities of other hiftories , but even for his entry , calleth the fweet Mufes to infpire into him a good invention : In troth , not labouring to tell you what is , or is not , but what should , or should not be . And , therefore ...
... authorities of other hiftories , but even for his entry , calleth the fweet Mufes to infpire into him a good invention : In troth , not labouring to tell you what is , or is not , but what should , or should not be . And , therefore ...
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... authority I would much more have reverenced : but it was the former ; in truth a bitter punisher of faults , but elfe a man that had never facrificed to the Graces . He mifliked and cried out against all Greek learning ; and yet , being ...
... authority I would much more have reverenced : but it was the former ; in truth a bitter punisher of faults , but elfe a man that had never facrificed to the Graces . He mifliked and cried out against all Greek learning ; and yet , being ...
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Page 67 - 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. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 2 - I remember mine ears were at any time more loaden, than when (either angered with slow payment, or moved with our learner-like admiration) he exercised his speech in the praise of his faculty. He said soldiers were the noblest estate of mankind, and horsemen the noblest of soldiers. He said they were the masters of war, and ornaments of peace...
Page 99 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 5 - Tyrtaeus in war matters; and Solon in matters of policy; or rather they, being poets, did exercise their delightful vein in those points of highest knowledge, which before them lay...
Page 12 - Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it.
Page 28 - For that a feigned example hath as much force to teach as a true example...
Page 12 - Neither let it be deemed too saucy a comparison to balance the highest point of man's wit with the efficacy of Nature; but rather give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings...
Page 32 - The philosopher showeth you the way, he informeth you of the particularities, as well of the tediousness of the way, as of the pleasant lodging you shall have when your journey is ended, as of the many by-turnings that may divert you from your way.
Page 2 - ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises, by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.
Page 99 - In short, within his view and about his times were all the wits born, that could honour a language or help study. Now things daily fall, wits grow downward, and eloquence grows backward; so that he may be named, and stand, as the mark and acme of our language.