 ... the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature ; which in nothing he showeth so much as in poetry ; when, with the force of a divine breath, he bringeth things...  The Retrospective Review - Page 471824Full view - About this book
 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...and over all the workes of that second nature : which in nothing hee sheweth so much as in Poetrie ; when, with the force of a divine breath, he bringeth things forth far surpassing her dooings, with no small argument to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature; which in nothing he showeth so much as in poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings, with no small argument to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of... | |
 | Dorothy Connell - Literary Criticism - 1977 - 190 pages
...likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in poetry, when with the force of a divine...breath he bringeth things forth surpassing her doings. . . . (Defence, p. 79) These and related passages from A Defence of Poetry will figure later in the... | |
 | Poetry - 1981 - 206 pages
...kinsman Sidney, Herbert wrote for fallen man; he knew that poetry is especially useful "since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepcth us from reaching unto it." 41 The Temple is not a work whose pattern can be grasped from without,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - History - 1983 - 580 pages
...likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature, which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine...things forth surpassing her doings, with no small [argument] to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam, since our erected wit maketh us... | |
 | F.R. Burwick - Science - 1987 - 320 pages
...his own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature, which in nothing shows so much as in poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he brings things forth far surpassing her doings. . . ." Properly - that is to say, divinely - inspired,... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 452 pages
...poet alone, "lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature," when "with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings"; he at once turns, however, to his basic formulation that poetry is an "art... | |
 | Phyllis Rackin - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...University Press, 1968), pp. 285-313. all the works of that second nature, which in nothing he shows so much as in poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he brings things forth far surpassing her doings.2" Puttenham uses a theological argument to celebrate... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - Philosophy - 1991 - 828 pages
...likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature; which in nothing he showeth so much as in poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings. ["The Defense of Pbesie" 1583] But it is left to the Romantic philosophers... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in poetry, when with the force of a divine...surpassing her doings - with no small arguments to the credulous of that first accursed fall of Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection... | |
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