 | Charles William Eliot - English essays - 1910 - 442 pages
...the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam, — since our erected wit maketh us know what V- 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... | |
 | Dorothy Connell - Literary Criticism - 1977 - 190 pages
...It gives 'no small arguments to the credulous 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' (Defence, p. 79). Sidney is clear about the limitations of fallen mankind, yef) faith and a genial... | |
 | 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
...the force of a divine breath he bringeth 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 know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto... | |
 | Robert E. Stillman - Country life in literature - 1986 - 292 pages
...writes, "with no small argument to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam: . . . our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it."26 In the course of juxtaposing his remarks about the cooperation possible between art and nature... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
..."credulous": "with no small argument to the credulous ot 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." The sentence makes more sense, however, if the word is left as Ponsonby's "incredulous," the phrase... | |
 | Clark Hulse - Art - 1990 - 244 pages
...images of a perfected nature is to Sidney a proof of the spirit's Edenic origin, "since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it" (Defence, p. 79). Through his invocation of Genesis, Sidney summons up once again the gap between what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 324 pages
...connotation than that of Lucrece's will here; compare 486, and note Sidney's formulation: 'our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it' (Apology, p. 101). 1300 too curious-good over-elaborate. 1300 blunt and ill ie style is overcome by... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 384 pages
...ideas of Man; he is more "fallen" than is allowed in the one, less than in the other. "Our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it" effects not a resolution, but a clash of rival absolutes. It is a precise epitome of the struggle over... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...doings - with no small arguments to the credulous 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.' Sidney, 24—5. 16 Puttenham, 303. 17 Ibid., 154. 18 Ibid., 262. 1 9 When he is talking about the horticultural... | |
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Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. 
