 This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us...  Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks - Page 5by Sir Philip Sidney - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Eva Mabel Tenison - 1923 - 392 pages
...first to weigh this latter sort of poetry. . . . This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, . . . which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end so ever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1923 - 468 pages
...of ^udgenientpand • enlarging of conceit, which commoly we cal learning, trnderj what name so ever it come forth, or to what immediate end / soever it be directed, the finall end is, to lead, and draw us to as / high a perfection, as our degenerate soules made worse... | |
 | Ida Langdon - 1924 - 366 pages
...(Matt. 19.9), Works 4.245. 1 Church-Got. (Bk. 2), Works 3.144-145. pattern of courtesy, had written : 'This purifying of wit , this enriching of memory,...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of.'1 Milton,... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1924 - 446 pages
...courage; not of abusing man's wit, but of strengthening man's wit. For " under what name soever it cometh forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed," the " final end " of poetry, learning, and wisdom " is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate... | |
 | Edith Rowland - 1925 - 268 pages
...conceyt, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it com forth, or to what immediat end soever it be directed, the final end is, to lead and draw us to as high a perfection, as our degenerate soules made worse by theyr clayey lodgings, can be capable of. This... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1927 - 1128 pages
...surmises we stammered to express. It was the true learning of which his favourite Sir Philip Sidney said: This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay lodgings, can be capable of. Indeed,... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1915 - 504 pages
...would swear they be brought to school again." Moreover the end of this instruction is character ') : "This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory,...enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commpnly we call learning , under what name soever it come forth , or to what immediate end soever... | |
 | Joan Simon - 1966 - 472 pages
...of nature and art, the true use of imitation, in what learning consists and what is its proper end. 'This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory,...enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning", wrote Sidney, is usually directed to some immediate end, but its ultimate end must be to ' draw us... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1983 - 580 pages
...in neither of these anatomies he be condemnable, I hope we shall obtain a more favorable sentence. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay lodgings, can be capable of. This, according... | |
 | Dolora A. Wojciehowski - 1995 - 292 pages
...of Poetry (1583), described in Neoplatonic terms the ennobling and liberating qualities of learning: "This purifying of wit — this enriching of memory,...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of" (p. 28).... | |
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