English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to MacaulayCharles W P.F. Collier, 1910 - 421 páginas |
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... object , without which they could not consist , and on which they so depend as they become actors and players , as it were , of what nature will have set forth . So doth the astronomer look upon the stars , and , by that he seeth , set ...
... object , without which they could not consist , and on which they so depend as they become actors and players , as it were , of what nature will have set forth . So doth the astronomer look upon the stars , and , by that he seeth , set ...
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... objects ; as the painter that should give to the eye either some excellent perspective , or some fine pic- ture fit for building or fortification , or containing in it some notable example , as Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac , Judith ...
... objects ; as the painter that should give to the eye either some excellent perspective , or some fine pic- ture fit for building or fortification , or containing in it some notable example , as Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac , Judith ...
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... object that Plato , being a philosopher , was a natural enemy of poets . For , in- deed , after the philosophers had picked out of the sweet mys- teries of poetry the right discerning true points of knowl- edge , they forthwith ...
... object that Plato , being a philosopher , was a natural enemy of poets . For , in- deed , after the philosophers had picked out of the sweet mys- teries of poetry the right discerning true points of knowl- edge , they forthwith ...
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... and genuine taste of their objects , which are all sophisticated there , and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries . Here , 3 Human . pleasure looks ( methinks ) like a beautiful , constant OF AGRICULTURE 67.
... and genuine taste of their objects , which are all sophisticated there , and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries . Here , 3 Human . pleasure looks ( methinks ) like a beautiful , constant OF AGRICULTURE 67.
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... object , that the second of these was a murtherer , I desire he would consider , that as soon as he was so , he quitted our profession , and turn'd builder . It is for this reason , I suppose , that Ecclesiasticus forbids us to hate ...
... object , that the second of these was a murtherer , I desire he would consider , that as soon as he was so , he quitted our profession , and turn'd builder . It is for this reason , I suppose , that Ecclesiasticus forbids us to hate ...
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Página 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...
Página 364 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?