poetrie

Now therfore it shal not be amisse, first to way this latter sort of poetrie by his workes, and then by his parts, and if in neither of these Anatomies hee be condemnable, I hope we shall obteine a more favourable sentence.

Defence of Poesie 1992

Robertus Browning his poetrie, or to Emerson hys laste discourse att ye Musicke Halle.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

This was a very necessary deuise of the Poet and a fine, besides his poetrie to play also the Phisitian, and not onely by applying

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Metaphysikes, shewing the cause why poetrie hath feigned that the gods in old time vsed to sweare by water, as Jupiter is reported to haue doone in this manner;

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, etc., in which are two songs (“If music and sweet poetrie agree,” and “As it fell upon a day”) also included in The Passionate Pilgrim, an unauthorised collection, and which were long attributed to

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853

No trulie: for the truest poetrie is the most fai-ning,

As You Like It (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

Whereby he taketh occasion, for proofe of his more excellencie and skill in poetrie, to recorde a song, which the sayd Colin sometime made in honor of her Maiestie, whom abruptely he termeth Elysa.

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

This was a very necessary deuise of the Poet and a fine, besides his poetrie to play also the Phisitian, and not onely by applying a medicine to the ordinary sicknes of mankind, but by making the very greef it selfe (in part) cure of the disease.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

But ther is a nature peculier, eyther to hym or him, that properly belõgeth either to thys man or that, as if a man wolde saye some menne to be borne to disciplines mathematical some to diuinitie, some to rethorike some to poetrie, and some to war.

The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

It was the Gentiles oratorie, yet not without the Holy Ghost’s rhetorick, that did almost perswade Agrippa to be a Christian; and it was the Gentiles poetrie, but not without a Deitie in the verse, that taught the Athenians to know an unknown God.

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640