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... never passed away . Sidney's literary work was all published after his death , some of it against his express desire . The " Arcadia , " an elaborate pastoral romance written in a highly ornate prose mingled with verse , was composed ...
... never passed away . Sidney's literary work was all published after his death , some of it against his express desire . The " Arcadia , " an elaborate pastoral romance written in a highly ornate prose mingled with verse , was composed ...
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... never have confessed them ; besides his poetical describing the circumstances of their meetings , as the well- ordering of a banquet , the delicacy of a walk , with interlacing mere tales , as Gyges ' Ring and others , which who knoweth ...
... never have confessed them ; besides his poetical describing the circumstances of their meetings , as the well- ordering of a banquet , the delicacy of a walk , with interlacing mere tales , as Gyges ' Ring and others , which who knoweth ...
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... never were in nature , as the heroes , demi - gods , cyclops , chimeras , furies , and such like ; so as he goeth hand in hand with nature , not enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts , but freely ranging within the zodiac of ...
... never were in nature , as the heroes , demi - gods , cyclops , chimeras , furies , and such like ; so as he goeth hand in hand with nature , not enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts , but freely ranging within the zodiac of ...
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... never - leaving goodness . The second kind is of them that deal with matters philo- sophical , either moral , as Tyrtæus , Phocylides , and Cato ; or natural , as Lucretius and Virgil's Georgics ; or astronomical , as Manilius and ...
... never - leaving goodness . The second kind is of them that deal with matters philo- sophical , either moral , as Tyrtæus , Phocylides , and Cato ; or natural , as Lucretius and Virgil's Georgics ; or astronomical , as Manilius and ...
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... never versified , and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets . For Xenophon , who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem justi imperii - the portraiture of a just empire under the name of Cyrus ...
... never versified , and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets . For Xenophon , who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem justi imperii - the portraiture of a just empire under the name of Cyrus ...
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Page 315 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate...
Page 364 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Page 69 - As I looked upon him, he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from anything I had ever heard.
Page 51 - Sufflaminandus erat," as Augustus said of Haterius. 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, "Ca:sar, thou dost me wrong.
Page 18 - ... 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 6 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth: to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture : with this end, to teach and delight; of this have been three several kinds.
Page 203 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 70 - 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 8 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called arckitektonike, 360 which stands, as I think, in the knowledge of a man's self, in the ethic and politic consideration, with the end of well-doing, and not of well-knowing only...
Page 23 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?