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Page 127
... kind , is effected by a paralogism ; this is a fallacy derived from a false foundation , as is a paralogism in dialectic . A fifth kind of Discovery is that which arises from conjectured likenesses more carefully considered and brought ...
... kind , is effected by a paralogism ; this is a fallacy derived from a false foundation , as is a paralogism in dialectic . A fifth kind of Discovery is that which arises from conjectured likenesses more carefully considered and brought ...
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... kind are many of the scenes of Aristophanes , who unhappily sometimes exceeds this limit , and becomes absolutely condemnable . This is , moreover , the source of the pleasure . we take in parodies , when the feelings , the language ...
... kind are many of the scenes of Aristophanes , who unhappily sometimes exceeds this limit , and becomes absolutely condemnable . This is , moreover , the source of the pleasure . we take in parodies , when the feelings , the language ...
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... kind of tragedy seems to me far to surpass the other two , for it shows us the greatest misfortune not as an exception , not as something occasioned by rare circumstances or monstrous characters , but as arising easily and of itself out ...
... kind of tragedy seems to me far to surpass the other two , for it shows us the greatest misfortune not as an exception , not as something occasioned by rare circumstances or monstrous characters , but as arising easily and of itself out ...
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The Art of Poetry | 67 |
On the Sublime | 76 |
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO 103 The Genealogy of the Gentile Gods | 112 |
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