 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 lapas
...would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar? An Apologiefor Poetrie. THE GOLDEN WORLD NATURE never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make this too-much-loved... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 lapas
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging only within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry...sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden. But let those... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 428 lapas
...and worth. She is the friend both of virtue and learning : yet she is no austere task-mistress : ' Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry...done, neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely.' Poetry... | |
 | 1921 - 286 lapas
...age, when the world was younger and man could calm his spirit with all the beauties of nature. \TJTURE never set forth the earth in so rich .*. » tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make this too-much-loved... | |
 | William Matthew Flinders Petrie - 1924 - 248 lapas
...HEWLETT IT is true, as Sir Philip Sidney tells us, that "Nature never set forth the earth in so rich a tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved Earth more lovely." The poet's... | |
 | 1903 - 912 lapas
...although, of course, some allowance must be made for the inventiveness of poet as well as painter, •— "Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, " said Sir Philip Sidney, and, after all, these old gardens with their fruit trees, their beds of medicinal... | |
 | David R. Shore - 1985 - 200 lapas
...eloquence, is able to deny the restrictions which fallen nature would impose on the realm of human desire: "Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry...sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden." 15 In Colin... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 lapas
.... . within the narrow warrant of her gifts', ranges 'within the zodiac of his own wit'. Nature has 'never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done'; while 'her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden' (99.33-100.33). Turning from natural settings... | |
 | Clark Hulse - 1990 - 244 lapas
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging only within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much... | |
 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - 1990 - 284 lapas
...variety. The figure of the poet as weaver is a Renaissance commonplace. Sidney states in the Apology that "Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done"; Ariosto confesses that he uses many threads to extend the great web that he is weaving (Orlando Furioso,... | |
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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only... 
