 | Giambattista Vico - Biography & Autobiography - 1944 - 246 pages
...who spoke in poetic characters. This discovery, which is the master key of this Science, has cost us the persistent research of almost all our literary life, because with our civilized nature we [moderns] cannot at all imagine and can understand only by great toil the poetic nature of... | |
 | Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin, Max Harold Fisch - History - 1984 - 500 pages
...who spoke in poetic characters. This discovery, which is the master key of this Science, has cost us the persistent research of almost all our literary...by great toil the poetic nature of these first men [Hi]. The [poetic] characters of which we speak were certain imaginative genera (images for the most... | |
 | Joseph James Chambliss - Education - 1987 - 198 pages
...discovery, which is the master key of this Science, has cost us the persistent research of almost all of our literary life, because with our civilized natures...by great toil the poetic nature of these first men. The [poetic] characters of which we speak were certain imaginative genera (images for the most part... | |
 | Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr - Semiotics - 1989 - 448 pages
...who spoke in poetic characters. This discovery, which is the master key of this Science, has cost us the persistent research of almost all our literary...great toil the poetic nature of these first men'. 17. See Bergin-Fisch translation, p. 71: "The most sublime labor of poetry is to give sense and passion... | |
 | R.S. Woolhouse - Science - 1988 - 386 pages
...reconstruct "actor's meaning", or of a Collingwoodian empathy. "With our civilized natures", he says, "we cannot at all imagine and can understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these first men" (|52| 34: see [35| 166f; [6| 96; [7| 80). Interpretation is possible for us only because we share in... | |
 | Edna Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 204 pages
...who spoke in poetic characters. This discovery, which is the master key of this Science, has cost us the persistent research of almost all our literary life, because with our civilized nature we cannot at all imagine and can understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these first... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - Philosophy - 1991 - 828 pages
...similarities: A man and the hero he imitates or the god he represents are not alike but are one. "We cannot at all imagine and can understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these first men" (34). Their poetic mind can univocally predicate a poetic genus of a mere collection of particulars... | |
 | Joseph Mali - History - 2002 - 296 pages
...who spoke in poetic characters. This discovery, which is the master-key of this Science, has cost us the persistent research of almost all our literary life, because with our civilized natures we cannot at all imagine and can understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these men. (NS/34)... | |
 | Paul Hamilton - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 244 pages
...discovery of the mythological or poetic sources of civilization. Historical chronicles often begin too late ‘because with our civilized natures we [moderns] cannot at all imagine and understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these first men' (399). But only by this exercise... | |
 | Paul Hamilton - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 244 pages
...discovery of the mythological or poetic sources of civilization. Historical chronicles often begin too late ‘because with our civilized natures we [moderns] cannot at all imagine and understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these first men' (399). But only by this exercise... | |
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the persistent research of almost all our literary life, because with our civilized natures we [moderns] cannot at all imagine and can understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these first men. 
