Beiträge zur Entstehungsgeschichte der neueren Ästhetik

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Würzburg., 1899 - 55 pages
 

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Page 5 - Zwei Dinge erfüllen das Gemüt mit immer neuer und zunehmender Bewunderung und Ehrfurcht, je öfter und anhaltender sich das Nachdenken damit beschäftigt: der bestirnte Himmel über mir und das moralische Gesetz in mir.
Page 47 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 21 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence...
Page 30 - lana Tarentino violas imitata veneno". ac ne forte putes me, quae facere ipse recusem, cum recte tractent alii, laudare maligne : 210 ille per extentum funem mihi posse videtur ire poeta, meum qui pectus inaniter angit, irritat, mulcet, falsis terroribus implet, ut magus, et modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis.
Page 5 - Das erste fängt von dem Platze an, den ich in der äußeren Sinnenwelt einnehme, und erweitert die Verknüpfung, darin ich stehe, ins unabsehlich Große mit Welten über Welten und Systemen von Systemen, überdem noch in grenzenlose Zeiten ihrer periodischen Bewegung, deren Anfang und Fortdauer.
Page 42 - And neuerthelesse, without any repugnancie at all, a Poet may in some sort be said a follower or imitator, because he can expresse the true and liuely of euery thing is set before him, and which he taketh in hand to describe: and so in that respect is both a maker and a counterfaitor: and Poesie an art not only of making, but also of imitation.
Page 38 - ... all our understandings are not to be built by the square of Greece and Italy. We are the children of nature as well as they...
Page 38 - Philosophy is nothing, unless we bring the discerning light of conceit with us to apply it to use. It is not books, but only that great book of the world and the all-overspreading grace of heaven that makes men truly judicial.
Page 38 - We are the children of nature as well as they ; we are not so placed out of the way of judgement, but that the same sun of discretion shineth upon us...
Page 47 - ... submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. And we see, that by these insinuations and congruities with man's nature and pleasure, joined also with the agreement and consort it hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded.

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