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Our pleasures , therefore , are for the most part made up of expectation and novelty , and he who would instruct effectually must give us something to hope , and something to excite new and pleasing ideas in the imagination .
Our pleasures , therefore , are for the most part made up of expectation and novelty , and he who would instruct effectually must give us something to hope , and something to excite new and pleasing ideas in the imagination .
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а Such Incidents as are most productive of terror and.com Pasion , are the most proper for Tragedy . These are fuch as happen among friends and relations ; as when a brother kills , or is going to kill a brother , a father or mother ...
а Such Incidents as are most productive of terror and.com Pasion , are the most proper for Tragedy . These are fuch as happen among friends and relations ; as when a brother kills , or is going to kill a brother , a father or mother ...
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Many of the most illustrious Roman families are allo thus allegorically complimented in some of the combats ; and the death of Marcellus , whom Cæfar designed for his successor , is most beawej . fully and pathetically described in the ...
Many of the most illustrious Roman families are allo thus allegorically complimented in some of the combats ; and the death of Marcellus , whom Cæfar designed for his successor , is most beawej . fully and pathetically described in the ...
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| Title | 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 ... 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 International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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