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Page ix
... classical side of Sidney's theory was developed by Jonson , who gave a new and increased prestige to the rules formulated by the Italians , and shifted the interest of criticism to the external and objective side of literary art . Bacon ...
... classical side of Sidney's theory was developed by Jonson , who gave a new and increased prestige to the rules formulated by the Italians , and shifted the interest of criticism to the external and objective side of literary art . Bacon ...
Page x
... classical antiquity ; and the Italians of the Renaissance , from the time of Pico della Mirandola ( whose treatise De Imaginatione was translated into French by Baïf in 1557 ) , had devoted special monographs to the subject . But their ...
... classical antiquity ; and the Italians of the Renaissance , from the time of Pico della Mirandola ( whose treatise De Imaginatione was translated into French by Baïf in 1557 ) , had devoted special monographs to the subject . But their ...
Page xii
... classical indifference to lyric poetry , his treatment of ' parabolic ' poetry illustrates tendencies both sympathetic and unsympathetic to the new movement . His interest in it is scientific or philoso- phic rather than aesthetic : it ...
... classical indifference to lyric poetry , his treatment of ' parabolic ' poetry illustrates tendencies both sympathetic and unsympathetic to the new movement . His interest in it is scientific or philoso- phic rather than aesthetic : it ...
Page xiii
... classical point of view . Every critical utterance in Every Man in his Humour , acted in 1597 or 1598 , exhibits strong marks of this influence . The prologue , not published until much later , though ascribed by Gifford to 1596 , is a ...
... classical point of view . Every critical utterance in Every Man in his Humour , acted in 1597 or 1598 , exhibits strong marks of this influence . The prologue , not published until much later , though ascribed by Gifford to 1596 , is a ...
Page xv
... classical ideal . From the beginning Jonson's critical utterances were based on authority , the vehement and individual expres- sions of another's thought . He was not merely influ enced by the books he happened to read ; he consciously ...
... classical ideal . From the beginning Jonson's critical utterances were based on authority , the vehement and individual expres- sions of another's thought . He was not merely influ enced by the books he happened to read ; he consciously ...
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Page 195 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 207 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 20 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 206 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 2 - This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 26 - 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 199 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 203 - Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
Page 197 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church; to sing the victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ;...
Page lix - Unto the general disposition ; As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.