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" ... 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. "
The Popular Educator - Page 46
1867
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Sir Philip Sidney

Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 482 pages
...controvert. 1'octry is " that fayning notable images of vcrtues, vices, or what else with that delightfull teaching which must be the right describing note to know a poet by." Some modern poets would shrink from so rigorous a standard : Philip himself had no reason to shirk...
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Sir Philip Sidney

Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 458 pages
...controvert. Poetry is" that fayning notable images^ of vertues, vices, orTyEIFelse with that delightfull teaching which must be the right describing note to know a poet by." Some modern poets would shrink from so rigorous a standard : Philip himself had no reason to shirk...
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English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: With Introductions, Notes ...

Charles William Eliot - English essays - 1910 - 440 pages
...gown maketh an advocate, who, though he pleaded in armor, should be an advocate and no soldier — but it is that feigning notable images of virtues,...know a poet by. Although indeed the senate of poets hath chosen verse as their fittest raiment, meaning, as in matter they passed all in all, so in manner...
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English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 542 pages
...Arcadianism is then not only a prose style, but ^variety of the art of fiction. Sidney's aim is the "feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what...must be the right describing note to know a poet by." Arcadianism is an emotional medium for_the_ expression of lofty and heroic thought. If we consider...
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Anniversary Papers by Colleagues and Pupils of George Lyman Kittredge ...

Literature - 1913 - 490 pages
...the Cyropaedia as giving the " portraiture of a just empire " ; his test of a poet by his power of " feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what else, with that delightful teaching " ; and the eloquent praise of heroic poetry as the highest of " kinds," even as the poet surpasses,...
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The Art of Versification

Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - English language - 1913 - 336 pages
...extreme view: "It is the fayning notable images of vertues, vices, or what els, with that delightfull teaching which must be the right describing note to know a poet by. " Horace said that "a poet should instruct, or please, or both. " Even those who perfectly agree with...
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The Theory of Poetry in England: Its Development in Doctrines and Ideas from ...

Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...long gown maketh an advocate, who though he pleaded in armour should be an advocate and no soldier. But it is that feigning notable images of virtues,...know a poet by ; although indeed the Senate of poets hath chosen verse as their fittest raiment, meaning, as in matter they passed all in all, so in manner...
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Elizabethan Criticism of Poetry ...

Guy Andrew Thompson - Criticism - 1914 - 238 pages
...Spenser meets the test reiterated by Sidney, "the right describing note to know a poet by," namely, "that feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what else, with that delightful teaching." 40 From his "fore-conceit" as a maker, ranging freely within the zodiac of his wit, he bodies forth...
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Elizabethan Criticism of Poetry

Guy Andrew Thompson - Criticism - 1914 - 230 pages
...Spenser meets the test reiterated by Sidney, " the right describing note to know a poet by, " namely, " that feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what else, with that delightful teaching."40 From his "fore-conceit" as a maker, ranging freely within 1 the zodiac of his wit, he...
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The Rise of English Literary Prose

George Philip Krapp - English literature - 1915 - 578 pages
...but broadly, as " that fayning notable images of vertues, vices, or what els, with that delightfull teaching, which must be the right describing note to know a Poet by." "0 It is the function of poetry " to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate soules,...
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