 | John Dryden, Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1928 - 120 Seiten
...Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to 16 • us? us ? so true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science,...Persons that pretend to the same Reputation ; yet Poesie being then in more esteem than now it is, had greater Honours decreed to the Professors of it... | |
 | Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - 1990 - 366 Seiten
...anatomy, astronomy discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated. (OOP, i : 26) Running parallel to this argument is another one: just as the genius of antiquity devoted... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 Seiten
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? — So true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated.34 In the war between the "ancients" and the "moderns," Dryden clearly granted a vast superiority... | |
 | H. Floris Cohen - 1994 - 680 Seiten
...Anatomy, Astronomy, discover' d, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? so true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.1 THESE WORDS WERE WRITTEN IN 1668, not by a scientist, but by the poet John Dryden. From... | |
 | Norman Klassen - 1995 - 242 Seiten
...medicine, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated." ' John Dryden, 'Essay of Dramatic Poesy,' in John Dryden, ed, Keith Walker, Oxford, 1987, 80. Consider... | |
 | A. C. Crombie - 1990 - 534 Seiten
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated*'7. During the second half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth,... | |
 | Robin Dix - 2000 - 306 Seiten
...Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated. The passage reflects Dryden's sympathy with the Royal Society in its pursuit of "real knowledge,"39... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 Seiten
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than science,...is, had greater honours decreed to the professors of it, and consequently the rivalship was more high between them. They had judges ordained to decide... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 Seiten
...Anatomy, Astronomy discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated. ( Works xvn: 15) For Eugenius, then, "it follows that Poesie and other Arts may with the same pains,... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 Seiten
...anatomy, astronomy discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated. "'03 This could not be said of "the arts" because the standards of achievement in the sciences are... | |
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... almost a new nature has been revealed to us ? that more errors of the school have been detected, more useful experiments in philosophy have been made, more noble secrets in optics, medicine, anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous... 
