Examen de ingenios = The examination of mens wits : in which, by discouering the varietie of natures is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein (1604)
Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588 · London : Printed by Adam Islip · leaf 124
The Trial of Wits, aS ai 5 auld ah CHAPS VHB on | ence which {halbe corre(pondent to hima in particular:and that which ws repugnant and contrarie,be abandoned. … notamana Poet, little auailes it to deliuer him the precepts and rules of verfifying . For which caufe hee faid thus, The ftudying and learning of Poet taketh the courfe of Nature itfelfe, and is ftirred vp by the forces of the mind, and as it were enflamed by a certaine diuine {pirit. But herein…
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