The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 170
... fuch thing in nature , and you'll draw A faultless monster , which the world ne'er faw . Some faults muft be , which his misfortunes drew , But fuch as may deferve compaffion too . Tragedy is not always to end with the misfortunes of ...
... fuch thing in nature , and you'll draw A faultless monster , which the world ne'er faw . Some faults muft be , which his misfortunes drew , But fuch as may deferve compaffion too . Tragedy is not always to end with the misfortunes of ...
Page 184
... fuch a comprehenfive genius , fuch a fertile fancy , and was fo well acquainted with perfons and things , and especially with the paffions and humours of mankind , that the antients efteemed him as the great High Priest of Nature , who ...
... fuch a comprehenfive genius , fuch a fertile fancy , and was fo well acquainted with perfons and things , and especially with the paffions and humours of mankind , that the antients efteemed him as the great High Priest of Nature , who ...
Page 318
... fuch a fimilitude , as would not difguife the fact he intended to commemorate . Of MILTON'S PARADISE LOST . The poem ... fuch bold and noble strokes , and delivered in fuch nervous language , that the reader , forgetting his frail ...
... fuch a fimilitude , as would not difguife the fact he intended to commemorate . Of MILTON'S PARADISE LOST . The poem ... fuch bold and noble strokes , and delivered in fuch nervous language , that the reader , forgetting his frail ...
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