The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 151
... means the jeverity and dryness of the precepts were abated by the ex . amples , which , at the fame time that they relieved the mind , fixed the rules in the memory . Give a boy the di menfions of a piece of land , or a fuppofed room ...
... means the jeverity and dryness of the precepts were abated by the ex . amples , which , at the fame time that they relieved the mind , fixed the rules in the memory . Give a boy the di menfions of a piece of land , or a fuppofed room ...
Page 241
... means of turning him to ri- dicule . The diction of the Ody ffey is fuch as it ought to be , fuitable to the ... mean fubject , and Of the EPIC or HEROIC POEM . 241.
... means of turning him to ri- dicule . The diction of the Ody ffey is fuch as it ought to be , fuitable to the ... mean fubject , and Of the EPIC or HEROIC POEM . 241.
Page 242
John Newbery. his death ( tho ' a mean fubject , and ridiculed by fome critics ) is , in the manner Homer has introduced it , not only pleafing but pathetic , and fecures as much of our atten- tion as any paffage in ... mean fubject, and ...
John Newbery. his death ( tho ' a mean fubject , and ridiculed by fome critics ) is , in the manner Homer has introduced it , not only pleafing but pathetic , and fecures as much of our atten- tion as any paffage in ... mean fubject, and ...
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