Филип Сидни цитаты
Филип Сидни
Дата рождения: 30. Ноябрь 1554
Дата смерти: 17. Октябрь 1586
Фи́лип Си́дни — английский поэт и общественный деятель елизаветинской эпохи.
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„Философ учит добродетели с помощью отвлеченных понятий, я же призываю вас идти по следам тех, кто прошел прежде вас. Опыт одной жизни заключен в учении мудрого философа, я же даю вам опыт многих веков. Наконец, если он создает песенник, то я возлагаю руку ученика на лютню, и если он проводник света, то я свет.“
— Филип Сидни
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„Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.“
— Philip Sidney, книга Astrophel and Stella
Astrophel and Stella (1591), Context: .... But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
Sonnet 1,Concluding couplet from Loving in truth,and fain in verse my love to show
Compare: "Look, then, into thine heart and write", Henry W. Longfellow, Voices of the Night, Prelude.
„In the sweetly constituted mind of Sir Philip Sidney, it seems as if no ugly thought or unhandsome meditation could find a harbour. He turned all that he touched into images of honour and virtue.“
— Philip Sidney
Criticism, Charles Lamb "Characters of Dramatic Writers, Contemporary with Shakspeare", in Thomas Hutchinson (ed.) The Works in Prose and Verse of Charles and Mary Lamb (1908) vol. 1, p. 70.
„Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame,
Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee;
Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history:
If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.“
— Philip Sidney, книга Astrophel and Stella
Astrophel and Stella (1591), Sonnet 90.
„High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.“
— Philip Sidney, книга The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580), Book 1. Compare: "Great thoughts come from the heart", Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Maxim cxxvii.
„That sweet enemy, France.“
— Philip Sidney, книга Astrophel and Stella
Astrophel and Stella (1591), Sonnet 41, line 4.
„Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.“
— Philip Sidney
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595), Page 99.
The old song is usually known as "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" or "The Hunting of the Cheviot".
„Thy necessity is yet greater than mine“
— Philip Sidney
Allegedly spoken after the Battle of Zutphen, when offering water to an injured peer, though himself gravely wounded.
Source: Sir Philip Sydney Biography http://www.biography.com/people/sir-philip-sidney-21397397,
„A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.“
— Philip Sidney, книга The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580), Book 3, page 485.
„Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound,
And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found.
Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight,
Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight.“
— Philip Sidney
Criticism, Fulke Greville, Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney.
„Many-headed multitude.“
— Philip Sidney, книга The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580), Book 2. Compare: "Many-headed multitude", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act ii. sc. 3.; "This many-headed monster, Multitude", Daniel, History of the Civil War, book ii. st. 13.
„The poet…nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.“
— Philip Sidney
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595), Page 103.
„They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.“
— Philip Sidney, книга The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580), Book 1. Compare: "He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts", John Fletcher, Love's Cure, act iii. sc. 3.
„Poetry, a speaking picture… to teach and delight“
— Philip Sidney
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595), From 'Tracing Aristotle's Rhetoric' in Defense of Poesy 1581.
„Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.“
— Philip Sidney, книга The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580), Book 2, page 253.
„My dear, my better half“
— Philip Sidney, книга The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580), Book III. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=GxhRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA275&dq=half
„Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.“
— Philip Sidney, книга Astrophel and Stella
Astrophel and Stella (1591), Sonnet 1, Second Song. Note: Quoted by William Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor.
