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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Book III. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=GxhRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA275&dq=half
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)
“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”
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Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet 1,Concluding couplet from Loving in truth,and fain in verse my love to show
Compare: "Look, then, into thine heart and write", Henry W. Longfellow, Voices of the Night, Prelude.
Variante: Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Source: Astrophel and Stella (1591)
Contexte: .... But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
“Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.”
Page 39.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
“My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given.”
"My true love hath my heart, and I have his".
“A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.”
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Book 3, page 485.
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)
“High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.”
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Book 1. Compare: "Great thoughts come from the heart", Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Maxim cxxvii.
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)
“Thy necessity is yet greater than mine”
Allegedly spoken after the Battle of Zutphen, when offering water to an injured peer, though himself gravely wounded.
Source: Sir Philip Sydney Biography http://www.biography.com/people/sir-philip-sidney-21397397,
“And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.”
Sidney, Sonnet. Leave me, O Love. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Page 87.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
Page 99.
The old song is usually known as "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" or "The Hunting of the Cheviot".
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
Page 95.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with remarks, by Miss Porter (1807), p. 23. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.aa0000617332;view=1up;seq=53
“Open suspecting others comes of secret condemning themselves.”
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Book 1, page 144.
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Book 2, page 253.
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)
Charles Lamb "Characters of Dramatic Writers, Contemporary with Shakspeare", in Thomas Hutchinson (ed.) The Works in Prose and Verse of Charles and Mary Lamb (1908) vol. 1, p. 70.
Criticism
“Poetry, a speaking picture… to teach and delight”
From 'Tracing Aristotle's Rhetoric' in Defense of Poesy 1581.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
Fulke Greville, Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney.
Criticism
“Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.”
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Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet 1, Second Song. Note: Quoted by William Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor.
Astrophel and Stella (1591)
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Book 1. Compare: "He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts", John Fletcher, Love's Cure, act iii. sc. 3.
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)
Page 89.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
“The poet…nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.”
Page 103.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Book 2. Compare: "Many-headed multitude", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act ii. sc. 3.; "This many-headed monster, Multitude", Daniel, History of the Civil War, book ii. st. 13.
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