The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 128
... fame ; for fame alone the beau . Of late at White's was young Floxello feen , How blank his look ! how difcompos'd his mien ? So hard it proves in grief fincere to feign ! Sunk were his fpirits ; for his coat was plain . Next day his ...
... fame ; for fame alone the beau . Of late at White's was young Floxello feen , How blank his look ! how difcompos'd his mien ? So hard it proves in grief fincere to feign ! Sunk were his fpirits ; for his coat was plain . Next day his ...
Page 169
... fame place where it was laid at the beginning . This indeed would be to keep clofe to nature and proba- bility ; for what is prefented on the fame Stage , which is never moved , fhould be fuppofed to have paffed in the fame houfe , and the ...
... fame place where it was laid at the beginning . This indeed would be to keep clofe to nature and proba- bility ; for what is prefented on the fame Stage , which is never moved , fhould be fuppofed to have paffed in the fame houfe , and the ...
Page 349
... fame fubjects to illuftrate , or the fame materials to employ . A modern Epic poet may be compared to a modern architect , who is to build a palace , that in magnificence , ufe and beauty , may vie with a marble ftructure placed before ...
... fame fubjects to illuftrate , or the fame materials to employ . A modern Epic poet may be compared to a modern architect , who is to build a palace , that in magnificence , ufe and beauty , may vie with a marble ftructure placed before ...
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