English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 - 460 pàgines |
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Pàgina 45
... greater than himself , is herein of no validity . But now indeed my burden is great ; now Plato's name is laid upon me , whom , I must confess , of all philosophers I have ever esteemed most worthy of reverence , and with great reason ...
... greater than himself , is herein of no validity . But now indeed my burden is great ; now Plato's name is laid upon me , whom , I must confess , of all philosophers I have ever esteemed most worthy of reverence , and with great reason ...
Pàgina 81
... greater burdens upon our minds than they are well able to bear , because we would not appear like other men . And indeed I have wished that there were not that multiplicity of rhymes as is used by many in sonnets , which yet we see in ...
... greater burdens upon our minds than they are well able to bear , because we would not appear like other men . And indeed I have wished that there were not that multiplicity of rhymes as is used by many in sonnets , which yet we see in ...
Pàgina 89
... greater lawyer than Bartolus , a more acute logician than Scotus ; nor are the effects of all this great mass of eloquence so ad- mirable or of that consequence , but that impexa illa antiquitas can yet compare with them . Let us go no ...
... greater lawyer than Bartolus , a more acute logician than Scotus ; nor are the effects of all this great mass of eloquence so ad- mirable or of that consequence , but that impexa illa antiquitas can yet compare with them . Let us go no ...
Pàgina 106
... greater and more heroical ; because true History propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice , therefore Poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed ...
... greater and more heroical ; because true History propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice , therefore Poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed ...
Pàgina 111
... greater copy . Where the learned use ever election and a mean they look back to what they intended at first , and make all an even and proportioned body . The true artificer will not run away from Nature , as he were afraid of her , or ...
... greater copy . Where the learned use ever election and a mean they look back to what they intended at first , and make all an even and proportioned body . The true artificer will not run away from Nature , as he were afraid of her , or ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Pàgina 103 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Pàgina 240 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Pàgina 92 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Pàgina 432 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Pàgina 241 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Pàgina 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this 'side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fantasy, braye notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Pàgina 40 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place: 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 mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Pàgina 235 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach.