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Those therefore , who confider this work as an epic poem , and are difpleafed with the author , do him great injuftice ; they might as well complain that a jack is not a clock ; or cavil with an architect , who had built a beau- tiful ...
Those therefore , who confider this work as an epic poem , and are difpleafed with the author , do him great injuftice ; they might as well complain that a jack is not a clock ; or cavil with an architect , who had built a beau- tiful ...
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The critics confider Humour as a fubordinate or weaker paffion , chiefly found among the lower fort of people , whofe characters are therefore fitteft for Comedy , in which Humour is reckoned the trueft Wit . The Duke of Buckinghamshire ...
The critics confider Humour as a fubordinate or weaker paffion , chiefly found among the lower fort of people , whofe characters are therefore fitteft for Comedy , in which Humour is reckoned the trueft Wit . The Duke of Buckinghamshire ...
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When we confider the defects of the Eneid , we can- not help obferving , that the humanity of Eneas seems to be let down , by his feizing fo many youths to be facri- ficed to the manes of his friend Pallas , as that of Achilles ...
When we confider the defects of the Eneid , we can- not help obferving , that the humanity of Eneas seems to be let down , by his feizing fo many youths to be facri- ficed to the manes of his friend Pallas , as that of Achilles ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2 The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, John Newbery Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029955, 9780576029957 |
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