The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative NotesT. O. H. P. Burnham, 1860 - 380 pages |
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... moved to Oxford , of which his maternal uncle , the famous Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester , then held the office of chancellor ; and he was entered at Christ Church in 1569 , under the tuition of Dr. Thomas Thornton , * an elegant ...
... moved to Oxford , of which his maternal uncle , the famous Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester , then held the office of chancellor ; and he was entered at Christ Church in 1569 , under the tuition of Dr. Thomas Thornton , * an elegant ...
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... moved with our learner - like admiration ) he exercised his speech in the praise of his faculty . + This was Edward , the elder brother of Sir Henry Wotton . His name appeared at full length in the first edition of the Defence , and the ...
... moved with our learner - like admiration ) he exercised his speech in the praise of his faculty . + This was Edward , the elder brother of Sir Henry Wotton . His name appeared at full length in the first edition of the Defence , and the ...
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... move stones with his poetry to build Thebes , and Orpheus to be listened to by beasts ; indeed stony and beastly people ; so among the Romans were Livius , Andronicus , and Ennius ; so in the Italian language , the first that made it to ...
... move stones with his poetry to build Thebes , and Orpheus to be listened to by beasts ; indeed stony and beastly people ; so among the Romans were Livius , Andronicus , and Ennius ; so in the Italian language , the first that made it to ...
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... best understandings , with the fore- described name of 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 The Defence of Poesy . 71.
... best understandings , with the fore- described name of 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 The Defence of Poesy . 71.
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... move men to take that goodness in hand , which , without delight , they would fly as from a stran- ger ; and teach to make them know that goodness whereunto they are moved ; which being the noblest scope to which ever any learning was ...
... move men to take that goodness in hand , which , without delight , they would fly as from a stran- ger ; and teach to make them know that goodness whereunto they are moved ; which being the noblest scope to which ever any learning was ...
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Arcadia Astrophel and Stella beauty becaws Ben Jonson bliss breast brother cause conceit dear death defence Defence of Poesy delight desire doth Dudley Duke DUKE OF ANJOU Earl of Leicester ears England Espilus ev'n evil excellent eyes face fair father fault fear fool fynd Gabriel Harvey give grace hath haue hear heart heav'n heav'nly heer honour hope humbli Joseph Warton King lady learned leave letter light live Lord Lord Dudley Love's Majesty Matie matter mind Muse nature never pain philosopher Plato Plutarch poesy poetry poets praise prince Queen reason RIGHT HONORABLE saith shepherds Sidney's sight Sir Philip Sidney song SONNET soul speak speech Stella sweet thee thereof Therion things thou thought tion tongue true truly truth unto verse virtue vnto wherein woold words worthy write yowr Exci
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Page 92 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 77 - I say, for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description: which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the soul so much as that other doth.
Page 47 - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Page 85 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Page 114 - 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 ? Now of time they are much more liberal.
Page 268 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 72 - ... it is that feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what else, with that delightful teaching, which must be the right describing note to know a poet by.
Page 127 - That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, 5 Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain.
Page 88 - By these therefore examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest, that the poet with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually, than any other art doth, and so a conclusion not unfitly...
Page 144 - Poles' right king means without leave of host To warm with ill-made fire cold Muscovy; If French can yet three parts in one agree; What now the Dutch in their full diets boast; How Holland hearts, now so good towns be lost, Trust in the shade of...