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Hear what the Duke of Buckinghamshire says upon this subject : Reject that volgar error , which appears So fond of making perfe & Characters : There's no such thing in nature , and you'll draw A faultless monster , which the world ne'er ...
Hear what the Duke of Buckinghamshire says upon this subject : Reject that volgar error , which appears So fond of making perfe & Characters : There's no such thing in nature , and you'll draw A faultless monster , which the world ne'er ...
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Every thing is alive in Hommer . There is little of Narration ; for the persons appear as it were , before you , and speak for themselves . He has , as Arijiotle observés , found out living words , and , by daring tropes and figures ...
Every thing is alive in Hommer . There is little of Narration ; for the persons appear as it were , before you , and speak for themselves . He has , as Arijiotle observés , found out living words , and , by daring tropes and figures ...
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The greatest of the ancient poets , says he , seem to have held , that every thing in the moral , as well as the natural world , was carried on by the influence and direction of the supreme being . It was Jupiter that actuated every ...
The greatest of the ancient poets , says he , seem to have held , that every thing in the moral , as well as the natural world , was carried on by the influence and direction of the supreme being . It was Jupiter that actuated every ...
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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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