English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsCharles William Eliot P.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 421 páginas "A collection of essays written by English authors" --provided by cataloger. |
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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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Página 347 - 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...
Página 228 - 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.
Página 406 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Página 378 - The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
Página 68 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 68 - ... more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 26 - ... 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 14 - 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.
Página 86 - 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.
Página 16 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called &p-(tT£XTovtxrj, 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...