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Strona v - Are the obsolete thread-bare tales of Thebes and Troy, half so stored with great, heroical and supernatural actions (since Verse will needs find or make such) as the wars of Joshua, of the Judges, of David, and divers others ? Can all the Transformations of the Gods give such copious hints to flourish and expatiate...
Strona v - I do not at all wonder that the old poets made some rich crops out of these grounds ; the heart of the soil was not then wrought out with continual tillage : but what can we expect now, who come a gleaning, not after the first reapers, but after the very beggars ? Besides, though those mad stories of the gods and heroes seem in themselves so ridiculous, yet they were then the whole body (or rather chaos) of the theology of those times.
Strona v - But to us who have no need of them, to us who deride their folly, and are wearied with their impertinencies, they ought to appear no better arguments for Verse, then those of their worthy Successors, the Knights Errant.
Strona iv - ... as poetry. It is time to recover it out of the tyrant's hands, and to restore it to the kingdom of God, who is the father of it. It is time to baptize it in Jordan, for it will never become clean by bathing in the water of Damascus.
Strona v - What can we imagine more proper for the ornaments of Wit or Learning in the story of Deucalion then in that of Noah?
Strona iv - Flattery of great persons, or the unmanly Idolizing of Foolish Women, or the wretched affectation of scurril Laughter, or at best on the confused antiquated Dreams of senseless Fables and Metamorphoses.
Strona iv - Amongst all holy and consecrated things, which the devil ever stole and alienated from the service of the Deity, as altars, temples, sacrifices, prayers, and the like, there is none that he so universally and so long usurpt, as poetry.
Strona iv - There is not so great a lye to be found in any poet as the vulgar conceit of men, that lying is essential to good poetry.
Strona v - Theologie of those times. They were believed by all but a few Philosophers, and perhaps some Atheists, and served to good purpose among the vulgar (as pitiful things as they are) in strengthening the authority of Law with the terrors of Conscience, and expectation of certain rewards, and unavoidable punishments.
Strona iv - And, as men, before their receiving of the faith, do not, without some carnal reluctancies, apprehend the bonds and fetters of it, but find it afterwards to be the truest and greatest liberty ; it will fare no otherwise with this art, after the regeneration of it ; it will meet with wonderful variety of new, more...

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