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The Manners are said to be good when they are well expressed , that is , when the discourse of the persons plainly discover their ... that is , he must not give a Person any quality contrary to those which history has given hini .
The Manners are said to be good when they are well expressed , that is , when the discourse of the persons plainly discover their ... that is , he must not give a Person any quality contrary to those which history has given hini .
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Homer had such a comprehensive genius , such a fertile fancy , and was so well acquainted with persons and things , and especially with the passions and humours of mankind , that the antients esteemed him as the great High Priest ...
Homer had such a comprehensive genius , such a fertile fancy , and was so well acquainted with persons and things , and especially with the passions and humours of mankind , that the antients esteemed him as the great High Priest ...
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much to the advantage of his poem ; for as these chimerical phantoms bear with them no probability , they seem improper actors in an Epic Poem : though , as he has but two human persons , and a great part of the action is carried on in ...
much to the advantage of his poem ; for as these chimerical phantoms bear with them no probability , they seem improper actors in an Epic Poem : though , as he has but two human persons , and a great part of the action is carried on in ...
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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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