The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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... fubject on which it is employed ; for notwithstanding the boundless compafs allowed the imagination in thefe writings , nothing abfurd , or useless , is to be introduced . -In epic poetry fome things may , perhaps , be admitted for no ...
... fubject on which it is employed ; for notwithstanding the boundless compafs allowed the imagination in thefe writings , nothing abfurd , or useless , is to be introduced . -In epic poetry fome things may , perhaps , be admitted for no ...
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... fubject , in purfuit of new ideas arifing from fome of its adjuncts , and ranging wantonly , as it were , through a variety of matter , the poet is , from fome other cir- cumftance , led naturally to his fubject again ; and , like a bee ...
... fubject , in purfuit of new ideas arifing from fome of its adjuncts , and ranging wantonly , as it were , through a variety of matter , the poet is , from fome other cir- cumftance , led naturally to his fubject again ; and , like a bee ...
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... fubject of Milton . Stript of those ornaments , indeed , the moral would be the fame ; fo a beautiful bird divefted of his gorgeous plumage is the fame animal , but would not attract fo much of our at- tention and admiration . The Epic ...
... fubject of Milton . Stript of those ornaments , indeed , the moral would be the fame ; fo a beautiful bird divefted of his gorgeous plumage is the fame animal , but would not attract fo much of our at- tention and admiration . The Epic ...
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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