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abufe abuſed Aeneas againſt Apologie APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE Ariftotle auncient becauſe beleeue beſt caufe cauſe commeth conceits defire delight deliuered diuine dooing dooth doth Engliſh euen euill excellent exerciſe eyther fame farre fayd fayned fayth feeme feene felfe felues ferue fhall fhew firſt fith fome foorth fpeake fpeech fuch fweete Gabriel Harvey giue giueth Greekes hath haue hauing heauenly Hiftorian Hiftorie higheſt himſelfe imitate indeede inuention iuft learning leaſt loue maketh manifeft meaſure mifliked moft mooued morrall moſt Mufick muſt naturall neuer ouer paſsionate Philip Sidney Philofophers Plato Plutarch Poefie Poeſie poeticall Poetrie Poets prayfe Profe reafon repreſented ryme ſay ſhall ſhould Shrewsbury School Sidney's Sir Philip Sidney Sith ſpeake teach teacheth thefe themfelues theſe theyr things thinke thoſe thou truely verfe verſes vertue vnder vnderſtande vnto vpon vſe whofe words Xenophon
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Page 3 - I will report no other wonder but this, that though I lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man : with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind...
Page 12 - ... 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...
Page 15 - An \ Apologie \ for Poetrie. \ Written by the right noble, vertu-\ous, and learned, Sir Phillip \ Sidney, Knight. \\ Odi profanum vulgus, et arceo. || At London, | Printed for Henry Olney, and are to be sold at \ his shop in Paules C hurch-yard, at the signe \ of the George, neere to Cheap-gate. \ Anno 1595.
Page 63 - ... as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions.
Page 28 - Poets ; for these indeed do merely make to imitate, and imitate both to delight and teach, and delight to move men to take that goodness in hand, which without delight they would fly as from a stranger, and teach, to make them know that goodness whereunto they are moved...
Page 64 - Now, of time they are much more liberal, for ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love. After many traverses, she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falls in love, and is ready to get another child, and all this in two hours...
Page 41 - Truly, I have known men, that even with reading Amadis de Gaule, which, God knoweth, wanteth much of a perfect poesy, have found their hearts moved to the exercise of courtesy, liberality, and especially courage.
Page 20 - ... the first light-giver to ignorance, and first nurse, whose milk by little and little enabled them to feed afterwards of tougher knowledges.
Page 64 - While in the meantime two Armies flye in, represented with foure swords and bucklers, and then what harde heart will not receiue it for a pitched fielde?
Page 33 - ... or of a gorgeous palace the architecture, with declaring the full beauties might well make the hearer able to...