 This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us...  Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney - Page 5by Philip Sidney - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Dolora A. Wojciehowski - 1995 - 292 pages
...of Poetry (1583), described in Neoplatonic terms the ennobling and liberating qualities of learning: "This purifying of wit — this enriching of memory,...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of" (p. 28).... | |
 | Frederick Burwick, Jürgen Klein - 1996 - 576 pages
...delightful teaching, which must be the right describing note to know a poet by; [...] This purifymg of wit - this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment,...enlarging of conceit -which commonly we call learning [...] the fmal end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls [...] can... | |
 | Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, Roberta Wood, Nicholas Webb - 2000 - 428 pages
...these anatomies [dissections] he be condemnable, I hope we shall obtain a more favourable sentence. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of. This,... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 pages
...a more favourahle sentence, This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enahling of judgement, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning,...it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it he directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 2002 - 182 pages
...favourable sentence [judgement]. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgement, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning,...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay lodgings, can be capable of. This, according... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 2002 - 286 pages
...shall obtain a more favourable sentence. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of 5 judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly...come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be ditected, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 284 pages
...needs to be quoted in full: This purifying wit — this enriching of memory, enabling of judgement, and enlarging of conceit — which commonly we call...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of . (82.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1868 - 868 pages
...thought ' the noblest scope to which ever any learning was directed ' : This purifying of wit [he said], this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay lodgings, can be capable of. This, according... | |
 | 474 pages
...of nature and an, the true use of imitation, in what learning consists and what is its proper end. 'This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory,...enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning', wrote Sidney, is usually directed to some immediate end, but its ultimate end must be to ' draw us... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1915 - 242 pages
...conceyt, which commonly we * JK call learning, under what name soever it com forth, or to what immediat end soever it be directed, the final end is, to lead and draw us to as high a perfection, as our degenerate soules, made worse by theyr clayey lodgings, can be 10 capable of.... | |
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