 Indeed but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to poetry, since there have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.  The Dial - Page 89edited by - 1924Full view - About this book
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...is called Verse, indeed but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to Poetry ; since there have been many most excellent Poets that never...versifiers that need never answer to the name of Poets. For Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem iusti imperil, ' the portraiture... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...is called Verse, indeed but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to Poetry ; since there have been many most excellent Poets that never...versifiers that need never answer to the name of Poets. For Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem iusti imperil, ' the portraiture... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...is called verse. Indeed, but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to poetry, since there have been many most excellent poets that never...versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets — Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. CCCI. The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...is called verse. Indeed, but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to poetry, since there have been many most excellent poets that never...many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.—Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. VOL. in. o CCCI. The gain of lying is nothing else but not... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...is called verse. Indeed but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to poetry, since there have been many most excellent poets that never...versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets. For Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently as to give us " effigiem justi imperil," the portraiture... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...Indeed, but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to poetry, since there have »een many most excellent poets that never versified, and...versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets. — Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. CCCI, The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 412 pages
...is called verse. Indeed but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to poetry, since there have been many most excellent poets that never...versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets. For Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem justi imperil, the portraiture... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...which is called verse." Yet verse, we are told, is " but an ornament, and no cause to poetry ; since there have been many most excellent poets that never...versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet, no more than a long goTvn maketh an advocate, who,... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...is called verse. Indeed but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to poetry, since there have been many most excellent poets that never...versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets. For Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently as to give us " effigiem jnsti imperil," the portraiture... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...is called verse. Indeed, but apparelled verse, being but an ornament, and no cause to poetry, since nificantly be set open. poets.5 For Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiemjutli imperil, the portraiture... | |
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