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... epic poets alone were sufficient to refute their false philosophy ; showing by that appeal which they constantly make to the feeling* of mankind in favour of virtue, that the foundations of it are laid deep and strong in human nature ...
... epic poets alone were sufficient to refute their false philosophy ; showing by that appeal which they constantly make to the feeling* of mankind in favour of virtue, that the foundations of it are laid deep and strong in human nature ...
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... epic, how will the effect be rendered more perfect ; and for this reason, what hits Aristotle observed ? How is the remark fully illustrated, that in all the great epic poems, unity of action is sufficiently apparent? What does not the ...
... epic, how will the effect be rendered more perfect ; and for this reason, what hits Aristotle observed ? How is the remark fully illustrated, that in all the great epic poems, unity of action is sufficiently apparent? What does not the ...
Page 493
... epic poem, yet it were the mere squeamishness of criticism, to exclude it from the epic class. The boundaries, as I formerly remarked, are far from being ascertained by any such precise limit, that we must refuse the epic name to a poem ...
... epic poem, yet it were the mere squeamishness of criticism, to exclude it from the epic class. The boundaries, as I formerly remarked, are far from being ascertained by any such precise limit, that we must refuse the epic name to a poem ...
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LECTURE PAS | 10 |
CriticismGeniusPleasures of TasteSublimit in Objects | 27 |
Rise and Progress of Language and of Writing | 68 |
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