Footnote:
{1} Edton, elder brotton. ed by Elizabetroller of her household.
Observe treatise ten t in plain, manly Englis Euprictly reasoned.
{2} roduction ends, and t begins s Part 1. Poetry t Light-giver.
{3} A fable from t;amyt; of Laurentius Abstemius, Professor of Belles Lettres at Urbino, and Librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo under tificate of Alexander VI. (1492-1503).
{4} Pliny says (quot;Nat. .,quot; lib. xi., cap. 62) t tient to be born, break ther, and so kill her.
{5} Part 2. Borrowed from by Philosophers.
{6} timaeus, tias are represented by Plato as ened to tes on a Republic. Socrates calls on to sate in action. Critias ell of t citizens of Attica, 10,000 years before, from an inroad of countless invaders lantis, in tern Ocean; a struggle of Sais, in Egypt, and radition to Critias. But first timaeus agrees to expound tructure of tias, in a piece left unfiniso, proceeds to sy in action against pressure of a danger t seems irresistible.
{7} Platos quot;Republic,quot; book ii.
{8} Part 3. Borrowed from by orians.
{9} Part 4. ic.
{10} Part 5. And really sacred and propic in the Psalms of David.
{11} Part 6. By ts were he name of Makers.
{12} Poetry is tive art. Astronomers and ot hey find.
{13} Poets improve Nature.
{14} And idealize man.
{15} of the Essay begins.
{16} Part 1. Poetry defined.
{17} Part 2. Its kinds. a. Divine.
{18} Poo imitative.
{19} Marcus Manilius e under tiberius a metrical treatise on Astronomy, of wars remain.
{20} Poetry proper. {21} Part 3. Subdivisions of Poetry proper.
{22} Its essence is in t, not in apparelling of verse.
{23} ricca, in tury. ory of t;AEt; ic tale in Greek ed into English.
{24} ts ork and Parts. Part 1. ORK: Poetry does for us.
{25} t;Sucal souls; But ure of decay Dot in, .quot; (S;Merc of Venice,quot; act v., sc. 1) {26} Poetry best advances tuous action.
{27} Its advantage herein over Moral Philosophy.
{28} Its advantage ory.
{29} quot;All men make faults, and even I in trespass ; S;Sonnetquot; 35.
{30} quot;itness of times, ligrutress of life, messenger of antiquity.quot;--Cicero, quot;De Oratore.quot;
{31} In goes beyond Porian, and all oting comparison he Divine).
{32} he Philosopher.
{33} ;Ars Poetica,quot; lines 372-3. But e quot;Non ;--quot;Neittered columns ted mediocrity in poets.quot;
{34} t;Locus communis,quot; erm used in old roric to represent testimonies or pitences of good aut be used for strengt said Keckermann, ext- book in t;Because it is impossible to read t give students of eloquence form of books of Common Places, like t collected by Stobaeus out of Cicero, Seneca, terence, Aristotle; but especially titled Polyant and effective sentences apt to any matter.quot; Frequent resort to tation to be erm of roric, quot;a common- place,quot; came to mean a good saying made familiar by incessant quoting, and trite saying good or bad, but commonly in it.
{35} totle. t;Poeticsquot; runs:
quot;It is not by ing in verse or prose t torian and Poet are distinguisus mig it ill be a species of ory, no less re t. tinguis tes ry is more p tory, for Poetry is c about general trutory about particular. In ain cer , probably or necessarily, t of Poetry, even icular names. But rut;
{36} Justinus, ome of tory of trogus Pompeius, us.
{37} Dares Po of Vulcan, o ime of AElian, A.D. 230, o be older than homers.
{38} Quintus Curtius, a Roman orian of uncertain date, ory of Alexander t in ten books, of and otive.
{39} Not kno practice.
{40} t Monarch of all human Sciences.
{41} In quot;Loves Labours Lostquot; a resemblance ion of Biron, and t:- quot;ongue--conceits expositor - Delivers in suc and gracious aged ears play truant at ables, And younger e ravis and voluble is ;
{42} Virgils quot;AEneid,quot; Book xii.:- quot;And sed dastard turnus flying vie so vile a to die?quot; (Pranslation [1573].) {43} Instances of ts work.
{44} Defectuous. t;defectueux,quot; is used t;Apologie for Poetrie.quot;
{45} Part II. tS of Poetry.
{46} Can Pastoral be condemned?
{47} ting glory.
{48} Or Elegiac?
{49} Or Iambic? or Satiric?
{50} From t Satire of Persius, line 116, in a description of ire:
quot;Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit,quot; amp;c.
Soucranslated t;Unlike in mety ing grace Laug vice ickle, made te passes w;
{51} From tles (Lib. 1):
quot;Coelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt, Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis, , Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.quot;
t not toil in laboured idleness, and seek to live at ease iteams. t o be calm and clear.
quot;At Ulubraequot; to saying in t corner of ttle totle Pedlington. to t a grander form in Sartor Resartus:
quot;May say t tual enfranc is even this?
ruggling and inexpressibly languiso enouger, t your America is uation t its duty, its ideal, , out therefrom, believe, live, and be free.
Fool! t too is in tion is but tuff t to s same Ideal out of. matter or t, so t be ic? O t pinest in t of tual, and criest bitterly to to rule and create, knorut is already t;
{52} Or Comic?
{53} In pistrinum. In the pounding-mill (usually worked by horses or asses).
{54} Or tragic?
{55} ts first form.
{56} Or the heroic?
{57} Epistles I. ii. 4. Better tor. tle stoic, Crantor t commentator upon Plato.
{58} Summary of t thus far.
{59} Objections stated and met.
{60} Cornelius Agrippas book, quot;De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum et Artium,quot; publis;Moriae Encomiumquot; ten in a in a feions.
{61} tion to rre.
{62} t of tences is from le I. xviii. 69):
quot;Fly from tive man, for ; t;; seems to be varied from Ovid (Fasti, iv. 311):- quot;Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit: Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.quot;
A mind conscious of rig t towards vice we are a credulous crowd.
{63} tions.
{64} t time migter spent.
{65} Beg tion.
{66} t poetry is ther of lies.
{67} t poetry is ting us on and pestilent desires.
{68} Rampire, rampart, t;rempart,quot; ;rempar,quot; from quot;remparer,quot; to fortify.
{69} quot;I give o be foolis; A variation from t. I. i. 63), quot;Quid facias illi? jubeas miserum esse libenter.quot;
{70} t Plato baniss from his ideal Republic.
{71} y certain barbarous and insipid ers into meaning t poets o be t out of a state.
{72} Ion is a r, in dialogue es, and s floly ; says Socrates; quot;your talent in expounding an art acquired by system and met s besides. It is a special gift, imparted to you by Divine poion. true of t you expound. spring from art, system, or met is a special gift emanating from tion of t is lig compose verses at all so long as ake auting in place of it tion and special impulse . . . Like props and deliverers of oracles, ts aken as of t is not t of trains, it is to us, and speaks t; George Grote, from e translation of t;Ionquot; among to.
{73} Guards, trimmings or facings.
{74} the Second Summary.
{75} Causes of Defect in Englisry.
{76} From tion at t;Muse, bring to my mind t divinity one famous for piety s;
{77} tal, born in 1505, ical services ( of France, and long labour to repress civil skill in verse. he died in 1573.
{78} -strings titan (Prometened ter clay. (Juvenal, Sat. xiv. 35). Dryden translated ts context -
quot;Some sons, indeed, some very fe;
{79} tor is made, t born.
{80} you t comes.
{81} quot;ever I sry to e ; Sidney quotes from memory, and adapts to ext, tristium IV. x. 26.
quot;Sponte sua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos, Et quod temptabam dicere, versus erat.quot;
{82} ;itsquot; ; t;itsquot; not being yet introduced into Englising.
{83} Defects in t s tten y years old, and S seventeen, yet come to London. trongest of S yet begun to e for tage. Marlo ten; and trengt o come of t to be shown.
{84} tage.
{85} Messenger.
{86} From the egg.
{87} Bias, slope; Frenc;biais.quot;
{88} Juvenal, Sat. iii., lines 152-3. ;London:quot;
quot;Of all t rest, Sure t bitter is a scornful jest.quot;
{89} George Bacy-six) ten in earlier life four Latin tragedies, Bordeaux, aigne in his class.
{90} Defects in Lyric Poetry.
{91} Defects in Diction. tten only a year or ter tion of quot;Eup; represents t style of t created but represented by t took t;Eup;
{92} Nizolian paper-books, are commonplace books of quotable passages, so called because an Italian grammarian, Marius Nizolius, born at Bersello in teentury, and one of teent producers of sucribution ionary of p;tus Linguae Latinae e scriptis tullii Ciceronis collectus.quot;
{93} quot;o te, nay, comes to te,quot; amp;c.
{94} Pounded. Put in tray.
{95} Capacities of the English Language.
{96} Metre and Rhyme.
{97} Last Summary and playful peroration