The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 40
... thought it ex- pedient to follicit fome divine affiftance . Hence poets are faid to have been inspired , and hence an unbounded liberty has been given to the ode ; for the lyric poet , fired , as it were , with his fubject , and borne ...
... thought it ex- pedient to follicit fome divine affiftance . Hence poets are faid to have been inspired , and hence an unbounded liberty has been given to the ode ; for the lyric poet , fired , as it were , with his fubject , and borne ...
Page 201
... thought but rage , and never - ceafing ftrife , ' Till death extinguish rage , and thought , and life . Rouze then thy forces this important hour , Collect thy foul , and call forth all thy pow'r . Ꮶ ; No farther fubterfuge , no ...
... thought but rage , and never - ceafing ftrife , ' Till death extinguish rage , and thought , and life . Rouze then thy forces this important hour , Collect thy foul , and call forth all thy pow'r . Ꮶ ; No farther fubterfuge , no ...
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... thoughts and behaviour which the poet afcribes to the perfons he introduces , are just or conformable to the characters ... thought , ( a fault peculiar to Ovid and many others ) but implies more than he expreffes , yet his meaning is ...
... thoughts and behaviour which the poet afcribes to the perfons he introduces , are just or conformable to the characters ... thought , ( a fault peculiar to Ovid and many others ) but implies more than he expreffes , yet his meaning is ...
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