Examen de ingenios. = The examination of mens vvits. : In which, by discouering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein. (1616)
Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588 · London : Printed by Adam Islip, for Thomas Adams · leaf 122
/ iO% 0] GHAP. VIII. I Jlow there my he ijpgfied to euerte difference of wit f is Sci^ ^ enceflphich^dhe correfpondeht te him inpxrtktiUr : and tbit which is repugnant and contrariefe abandoned, » … man a Poet , little auailcs it to dc- liucr him the precepts and rules of verfifying . For which caufe he faid thus , The ftudying and learning of other matters confifteth in precepts and in artcs ; but a Poet taketh the courft of Nature it fclfc, and is ftirred vp by the forces of the mind,…
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