 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 Seiten
...Hobbes: "I am of opinion that they cannot be good Poets who are not accustomed to argue well. False Reasonings and colours of Speech, are the certain...Mistress of the Poet as much as of the Philosopher: Poesie must resemble Natural Truth, but it must be Ethical." The new laureate did not concede a monopoly... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 Seiten
...which are not objectively sound or by constructing arguments which are more suggestive than true: False Reasonings and colours of Speech, are the certain...Mistress of the Poet as much as of the Philosopher: Poesie must resemble Natural Truth, but it must be Ethical...Therefore that is not the best Poesie... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 Seiten
...insistence that, while poetry "must be ethical," its ethical nature had nodiing to do with language: "the poet dresses truth, and adorns nature, but does not alter them: ... Though the fancy may be great and the words flowing, yet the soul is but half satisfied when there... | |
 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff - 2004 - 370 Seiten
...and Hobbes and had staunchly reaffirmed the objective, political roots of moral art. He told Howard, 'Moral Truth is the Mistress of the Poet as much as of the Philosopher: Poesie must resemble Natural Truth, but it must be Ethical' (9:12). By 1672, the social basis of Dryden's... | |
 | John Dryden - 312 Seiten
...retreat. For I am of opinion that they cannot be good poets who are not accustomed to argue well. False reasonings and colours of speech are the certain marks...but does not alter them: Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris. Therefore that is not the best poesy which resembles notions of things that are not... | |
 | 1925 - 402 Seiten
...his predecessors, Bacon and Sidney, Dryden70 regarded poetry as an imitative art. "Indeed," he says, "the poet dresses truth, and adorns nature, but does not alter them: Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris." In his insistence upon rules for the writing of poetry, Dryden advised that all poets... | |
 | 278 Seiten
...this root mind of man, is Dryden's Nature. This is the faith which Dryden sets out when he writes, Moral Truth is the Mistress of the Poet, as much as of the Philosopher. Poesie must resemble Natural truth, but it must be Ethical. Dryden is using the word 'natural' loosely... | |
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I am obliged to him for discovering to me this back door. But I am not yet resolved on my retreat. For I am of opinion that they cannot be good poets who are not accustomed to argue well. False reasonings and colours of speech are the certain marks of... 
