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... imitate the inconceiuable excellencies of GOD . Such were Dauid in his Psalmes , Solomon in his song of Songs , in his Ecclesiastes , and Prouerbs , Moses and Deborah in theyr Hymnes , and the writer of 10 Iob , which , beside other ...
... imitate the inconceiuable excellencies of GOD . Such were Dauid in his Psalmes , Solomon in his song of Songs , in his Ecclesiastes , and Prouerbs , Moses and Deborah in theyr Hymnes , and the writer of 10 Iob , which , beside other ...
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... imitate , and imitate both to delight and teach , and delight to moue men to take that goodnes in hande , which without delight they would flye as from a stranger , and teach , to make them know that goodnes whereunto they are mooued ...
... imitate , and imitate both to delight and teach , and delight to moue men to take that goodnes in hande , which without delight they would flye as from a stranger , and teach , to make them know that goodnes whereunto they are mooued ...
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... imitate so excellently as to giue vs effigiem iusti imperii , the portraiture of a iust Empire vnder the name of Cyrus ( as Cicero sayth of him ) , made therein an absolute heroicall Poem . So did Heliodorus in 10 his sugred inuention ...
... imitate so excellently as to giue vs effigiem iusti imperii , the portraiture of a iust Empire vnder the name of Cyrus ( as Cicero sayth of him ) , made therein an absolute heroicall Poem . So did Heliodorus in 10 his sugred inuention ...
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... imitate those opinions already induced . For all the Greek stories can well testifie that the very religion of that time stoode vpon many , and many - fashioned , Gods , not 30 taught so by the Poets , but followed according to their ...
... imitate those opinions already induced . For all the Greek stories can well testifie that the very religion of that time stoode vpon many , and many - fashioned , Gods , not 30 taught so by the Poets , but followed according to their ...
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... imitated ) did not so much keep Nizolian Paper - bookes of their figures and phrases , as by 30 attentiue translation ( as it were ) deuoure them whole , and make them wholly theirs . For nowe they cast Sugar and Spice vpon euery dish ...
... imitated ) did not so much keep Nizolian Paper - bookes of their figures and phrases , as by 30 attentiue translation ( as it were ) deuoure them whole , and make them wholly theirs . For nowe they cast Sugar and Spice vpon euery dish ...
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Page 92 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page vii - Yet faded from him; Sidney, as he fought And as he fell and as he lived and loved Sublimely mild, a Spirit without spot, Arose; and Lucan, by his death approved: Oblivion as they rose shrank like a thing reproved.
Page 52 - ... it is very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies.
Page 82 - The torrent roar'd ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried,
Page 61 - masculine rhyme," but still in the next to the last, which the French call the "female," or the next before that, which the Italians term sdrucciola. The example of the former is buono: suono, of the sdrucciola, femina: semina.
Page 39 - Muses to inspire into him a good invention; in truth, not labouring to tell you what is, or is not, but what should or should not be. And therefore, though he recount things not true, yet because...
Page 10 - 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 9 - ... bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings, with no small argument to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam: sith our erected wit, maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will, keepeth us from reaching unto it.
Page 52 - Asia of the one side, and Affrick of the other, and so many other vnderkingdoms, that the Player, when he commeth in, must euer begin with telling where he is, or els the tale wil not be conceiued.
Page 22 - So then the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action, or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet (if he list) with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching, and more delighting, as it pleaseth him, having all, from Dante's heaven to his hell, under the authority of his pen.