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... poets sing , the philosophers discourse , the his- torians unfold the wonderful march of life , and the searchers of nature reveal the secrets and mys- teries of creation . No matter what his rank or position may be , the lover of books ...
... poets sing , the philosophers discourse , the his- torians unfold the wonderful march of life , and the searchers of nature reveal the secrets and mys- teries of creation . No matter what his rank or position may be , the lover of books ...
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... , who so will with vertuous deeds assay To mount to heaven on Pegasus must ride , And with sweete Poets verse be glorifide . ( Ibid , iv . 311-12 ) THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST . What difference twixt 42 THE PRAISE OF BOOKS .
... , who so will with vertuous deeds assay To mount to heaven on Pegasus must ride , And with sweete Poets verse be glorifide . ( Ibid , iv . 311-12 ) THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST . What difference twixt 42 THE PRAISE OF BOOKS .
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... POETS AND NATURE . - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry , as divers Poets have done , neither with pleasant rivers , fruitful trees , sweet smelling flowers ; nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more ...
... POETS AND NATURE . - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry , as divers Poets have done , neither with pleasant rivers , fruitful trees , sweet smelling flowers ; nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more ...
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... Poets : sith lastly , our tongue is most fit to honor Poesie , and to be honoured by Poesie , I conjure you all , that have had the evil luck to read this ink - wasting toy of mine , even in the name of the nine Muses , no more to scorn ...
... Poets : sith lastly , our tongue is most fit to honor Poesie , and to be honoured by Poesie , I conjure you all , that have had the evil luck to read this ink - wasting toy of mine , even in the name of the nine Muses , no more to scorn ...
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... poets witty , the mathe- maticks subtill , natural philosophy deep , Moral grave , logick and rhetoric able to contend . A beunt studia in mores . Nay , there is no stand or im- pediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies ...
... poets witty , the mathe- maticks subtill , natural philosophy deep , Moral grave , logick and rhetoric able to contend . A beunt studia in mores . Nay , there is no stand or im- pediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies ...
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Page 106 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 70 - SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Page 148 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Page 64 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 94 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 81 - THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Page 69 - Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn. And broils root out the work of masonry.
Page 72 - Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; From hence your memory death cannot take, Although in me each part will be forgotten. Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die : The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entomb'd in men's eyes shall lie.
Page 140 - In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie (*) Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos : — here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, (*) The starry Galileo, with his woes ; Here Machiavelli's earth return'd to whence it rose.
Page 130 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.