The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 137
... subject , it may not be amiss to say fomething of the Burlesque kind of poetry , which is chiefly ufed by way of drollery and ridicule ; and therefore I know not where I can more properly speak of it than un- der the head of Satire . An ...
... subject , it may not be amiss to say fomething of the Burlesque kind of poetry , which is chiefly ufed by way of drollery and ridicule ; and therefore I know not where I can more properly speak of it than un- der the head of Satire . An ...
Page 187
... subject , disguised under the allegories of an important action , and delivered in an infinuating pleafing manner , would do more good with fuch a people ' than the most powerful oratory and argumentation , he composed his Iliad for ...
... subject , disguised under the allegories of an important action , and delivered in an infinuating pleafing manner , would do more good with fuch a people ' than the most powerful oratory and argumentation , he composed his Iliad for ...
Page 319
... subject which con- cerned Adam , and introduced what was prior to his crea- tion by way of epifode , in order to preferve the unity of his principal action ; nor will our introducing this for the use of the young ftudent give any ...
... subject which con- cerned Adam , and introduced what was prior to his crea- tion by way of epifode , in order to preferve the unity of his principal action ; nor will our introducing this for the use of the young ftudent give any ...
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abfurd Achilles action Æneid Agamemnon alfo allegory beautiful becauſe breaft characters death defcription defign Demaratus Dido Eneas Epic Epic Poetry ev'ry exprefs eyes fable facred fafe faid fame fate fatire feems feen fenfe fentiments fhade fhall fhew fhore fhould fide fight fince fing fire firft flain fome fong foon forrow foul ftands ftate ftill ftrength fubject fublime fuch fuppofe gods Grecian Greece Guife heart heav'n Hector hero himſelf Homer honour Iliad inftruction juft king laft lefs manner meaſure mind moft moſt mufic muft muſt nature numbers o'er obferved occafion paffage paffions pafs Patroclus perfons Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetry pow'r prefent Priam prince profe purpoſe racter raiſe reader reafon refpect reft reprefented rife Satan ſhall ſpeak tears thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Trojan Troy Ulyffes uſe verfe Virgil virtue whofe Xerxes