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" Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit,) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it... "
A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays - Page 236
by Francis Thompson - 1910 - 344 pages
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...know, or to be moved. with desire to know, hoc onus hie labor est, [' thie is the grand difficulty ']. Now, therein, of all sciences — I speak still of...human, and according to the human conceit — is our poi't the monarch. For he doth not only shew the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way....
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...it possesses this excellence by its superior creative power to dress and embellish nature. He says: 'Now, therein, of all sciences — I speak still of...— is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only shew the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it....
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...and 1 Not knowledge but practice. according to the human conceit), is our poet the monarch. For ho doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it ; nay, he doth, as if your journey should lie...
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Chapters in the History of English Literature: From 1509 to the Close of the ...

Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 392 pages
...world, to the government of families and maintaining of public societies." But the " peerless poet . . . doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it. Nay, he doth as if your journey should lie through...
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A Manual of English Literature: Historical and Critical : with an Appendix ...

Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 670 pages
...of poetry : — Now, therein, of nil sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the Iviman conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it : nay he doth, as if your journey should lie...
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Prose extracts [&c.].

John Edwin Nixon - 1885 - 256 pages
...which two several things would not be alike, but the same, which is impossible. SIE T. BROWNE. (37) Now of all Sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceits) is our Poet the Monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect...
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Works, Volume 1

Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...the " nature of things " as much as the reasoner, though he may not "buckle and bow the mind" to it: "He doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it. Nay, he doth as if your journey should lie through...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1888 - 666 pages
...from which we must find room for an extract, describing the invigorating moral effects of poetry : — Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human,...the human conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he dotli not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to...
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An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 3

John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 pages
...evidently partial. What youth again would not be struck with the passage which follows ? — ' Now, think, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human, conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect...
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Letters and Literary Remains: The mighty magician. Such stuff as dreams are ...

Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 pages
...they had not taken a great Passport of Poetry," which deals so in Similitudes. " For he " (the poet) " doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will * Fable might be made to exemplify the syllogism, but not to illustrate it. "The...
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