English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsCharles William Eliot "A collection of essays written by English authors" --provided by cataloger. |
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... learning is fallen to be the laugh- ing - stock of children , so have I need to bring some more available proofs , since the former is by no man barred of his deserved credit , the silly latter hath had even the names of philosophers ...
... learning is fallen to be the laugh- ing - stock of children , so have I need to bring some more available proofs , since the former is by no man barred of his deserved credit , the silly latter hath had even the names of philosophers ...
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... learning flourisheth not , is plain to be seen ; in all which they have some feeling of poetry . In Turkey , besides their lawgiving divines they have no other writers but poets . In our neighbor country Ireland , where truly learning ...
... learning flourisheth not , is plain to be seen ; in all which they have some feeling of poetry . In Turkey , besides their lawgiving divines they have no other writers but poets . In our neighbor country Ireland , where truly learning ...
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... learning . Now let us go to a more ordinary opening of him , that the truth may be the more palpable ; and so , I hope , though we get not so unmatched a praise as the etymology of his names will grant , yet his very description , which ...
... learning . Now let us go to a more ordinary opening of him , that the truth may be the more palpable ; and so , I hope , though we get not so unmatched a praise as the etymology of his names will grant , yet his very description , which ...
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... learning was directed , yet want there not idle tongues to bark at them . These be subdivided into sundry more special denomina- tions . The most notable be the heroic , lyric , tragic , comic , satiric , iambic , elegiac , pastoral ...
... learning was directed , yet want there not idle tongues to bark at them . These be subdivided into sundry more special denomina- tions . The most notable be the heroic , lyric , tragic , comic , satiric , iambic , elegiac , pastoral ...
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... learning , under what name soever it come forth or to what immediate end soever it be directed , the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls , made worse by their clay lodgings , can be capable ...
... learning , under what name soever it come forth or to what immediate end soever it be directed , the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls , made worse by their clay lodgings , can be capable ...
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Page 372 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Page 354 - 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.
Page 12 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour 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...
Page 60 - 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.
Page 14 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word M'V')<"s, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth; to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture, with this end — to teach and delight.
Page 60 - ... 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.
Page 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.
Page 15 - For these third be they which most properly do imitate to teach and delight, and to imitate borrow nothing of what is, hath been, or shall be; but range, only reined with learned discretion, into the divine consideration of what may be, and should be.
Page 78 - 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.
Page 350 - Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet.