 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 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. . . . Is it the lyric that most displeaseth,... | |
 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...dooings, with no small argument to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam : sith our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. The Romancer. — Lyly's Euphues was in its analytical tendencies and its criticism of Jife an anticipation... | |
 | Olwen Ward Campbell - Poets, English - 1924 - 362 pages
...it must express ideals so beautiful that 1 Cf. Sidney, in his Apologie for Poetrie : " Our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." 1 By poetry Shelley often means, as he himself admits, all forms of the expression of the imagination,... | |
 | John Webster - English literature - 1927 - 340 pages
...enough to compare the "Infected minds" of Macbeth, v. 1. 79 and Sidney, Apology for Poetry: "Our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it". Palaeographically (2) is of course easier than (1). The substitution of one prefix for another occurs... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 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,... | |
 | 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 me,... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...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 it. Sidney is here using Platonism against Plato. Plato in attacking poets had argued that they were at... | |
 | 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
...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 it. But these arguments will by few be understood, and by fewer granted. Thus much (I hope) will be given me,... | |
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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. 
