| Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...with no fmall arguments to the incredulous of that firft accurfed fall of Adam ; fince our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepcth us from reaching unto it. But thefe arguments will by few be underftood, and by fewer granted... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam. — Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." He now proceeds to arrange poetry under various artificial divisions and subdivisions ; shewing, however,... | |
| Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first .accursed fall of Adam. — Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." He now proceeds to arrange poetry under various artificial divisions and subdivisions ; shewing, however,... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...doings, with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our...infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. But these arguments will by few be understood, and by fewer granted : thus much I hope will be given me,... | |
| Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam. — Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." He now proceeds to arrange poetry under various artificial divisions and subdivisions ; shewing, however,... | |
| Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam. — Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching; unto it." He now proceeds to arrange poetry under various artificial divisions and suhdivisions ; showing, however,... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...doings, with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam, since our ejected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. — Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. ecu. Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic... | |
| English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam ; since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our...infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. But these arguments will by few be understood, and by fewer granted : thus much I hope will be given me,... | |
| Authors - 1845 - 762 pages
...doings, with no small arguments to the incredulous of the first accursed fall of Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." Sidney, be it remembered, was now but in his twenty-seventh year. In 1583 the poet married the daughter... | |
| 1845 - 384 pages
...doings, with no small arguments to the incredulous of the first accursed fall of Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepetk us from reaching unto it." Sidney, be it remembered, was now but in his twenty-seventh year.... | |
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