The Present State of Wit in a Letter to a Friend in the Country. London, 17111711 - 10 стор. |
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... Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert , 1580 III . Extract from Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia , 1598 IV . Dryden's Dedicatory Epistle to the Rival Ladies , 1664 . v . Sir Robert Howard's Preface to four new Plays , 1665 . VI . Dryden's ...
... Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert , 1580 III . Extract from Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia , 1598 IV . Dryden's Dedicatory Epistle to the Rival Ladies , 1664 . v . Sir Robert Howard's Preface to four new Plays , 1665 . VI . Dryden's ...
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... Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert , and the dissertation from Meres's Palladis Tamia - are , if minor , certainly char- acteristic examples of pre - Elizabethan and Elizabethan literary criticism . The next three - the Dedicatory ...
... Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert , and the dissertation from Meres's Palladis Tamia - are , if minor , certainly char- acteristic examples of pre - Elizabethan and Elizabethan literary criticism . The next three - the Dedicatory ...
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... Sidney's life . With great courage and with the noblest intentions , though with extraordinary want of tact , for he was only in his twenty - sixth year , he had presumed to dissuade Queen Elizabeth from marrying the Duke of Anjou . The ...
... Sidney's life . With great courage and with the noblest intentions , though with extraordinary want of tact , for he was only in his twenty - sixth year , he had presumed to dissuade Queen Elizabeth from marrying the Duke of Anjou . The ...
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... Sidney's serious , sweet , and beautiful character . The admirable remarks on the true use of the study of history , such as ' I never require great study in Ciceronianism , the chief abuse of Oxford , qui dum verba sectantur , res ...
... Sidney's serious , sweet , and beautiful character . The admirable remarks on the true use of the study of history , such as ' I never require great study in Ciceronianism , the chief abuse of Oxford , qui dum verba sectantur , res ...
Сторінка xiv
... Sidney's Defence of Poetry . A portion of the passage which immediately precedes the Discourse may be transcribed because of its plain speaking about the indifference of Elizabeth and her ministers to the fortune of poets ; though this ...
... Sidney's Defence of Poetry . A portion of the passage which immediately precedes the Discourse may be transcribed because of its plain speaking about the indifference of Elizabeth and her ministers to the fortune of poets ; though this ...
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Сторінка xlviii - Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money which was observable for several years after its publication.
Сторінка 207 - It is incredible to conceive the effect his writings have had on the town; how many thousand follies they have either quite banished, or given a very great check to; how much countenance they have added to virtue and religion; how many people they have rendered happy, by...
Сторінка 207 - ... say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Сторінка xxv - After I had, with the best attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment of the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it ; which I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Сторінка xlvii - I endeavored to make it both entertaining and useful ; and it accordingly came to be in such demand, that I reaped considerable profit from it, vending annually near ten thousand.
Сторінка xlvii - ... between the remarkable days in the Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as (to use here one of those proverbs) ' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Сторінка 207 - He has, indeed, rescued it out of the hands of pedants and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amiable and lovely to all mankind.
Сторінка 203 - ... preface, I shall therefore endeavour to perform, and give you the histories and characters of all our periodical papers, whether monthly, weekly, or diurnal, with the same freedom I used to send you our other town news. I shall only premise, that as you know I never cared one farthing either for whig or tory...
Сторінка 210 - If this piece of imprudence does not spoil so excellent a Paper, I propose to myself the highest satisfaction in reading it with you, over a dish of tea, every morning next winter.
Сторінка xlvi - He was permitted to dine, with the family; but he was expected to content himself with the plainest fare. He might fill himself with the corned beef and the carrots : but, as soon as the tarts and cheesecakes made their appearance, he quitted his seat, and stood aloof till he was summoned to return thanks for the repast, from a great part of which he had been excluded...