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... imagination , and created a world for himself in the invention of Fable ; for that which Ariftotle calls the Soul of Poetry , was firft breathed into it by Homer . Of the ILIA D. As there was no true hiftory 186 Of the EPIC or HEROIC POEM .
... imagination , and created a world for himself in the invention of Fable ; for that which Ariftotle calls the Soul of Poetry , was firft breathed into it by Homer . Of the ILIA D. As there was no true hiftory 186 Of the EPIC or HEROIC POEM .
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