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" Is growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiuing reason, with the painted skinne Of many words ; with empty sounds misleading Vs to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings neuer forth that Truth, whose name they vse. "
The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke Greville ... - Page 46
by Fulke Greville (Baron Brooke) - 1870
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The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English ...

Kenneth John Emerson Graham - 1994 - 260 pages
...Tieatie of Humane Learning-, rhetoric, he writes, Is growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiving reason, with the painted skinne Of many words; with empty sounds misleading Us to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings never forth that Truth, whose name they use. (HL...
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Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism

Charles R. Bambach - 1995 - 316 pages
...Treatie of Humane Learning-, rhetoric, he writes, Is growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiving reason, with the painted skinne Of many words; with empty sounds misleading Us to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings never forth that Truth, whose name they use. (HL...
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On Interpretation: Studies in Culture, Law, and the Sacred

Sonja Hansard-Weiner - 2002 - 296 pages
...being used around him, is corrupted by its reliance on words, rhetoric is far worse off, having growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiuing reason,...misleading Vs to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings neuer forth that Truth, whose name they vse. Besides, this Art, where scarcity of words Forc'd...
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Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse Into Drama

John Baxter - 2005 - 280 pages
...follows three stanzas devoted to logic.14 107 Rhetorike, to this a sister, and a twinne, Is growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiuing reason,...misleading Vs to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings neuer forth that Truth, whose name they vse. 108 Besides, this Art, where scarcity of words...
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