The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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... fuch as it fhould be ; but the other , in the per- " fon of Cyrus and the Perfians , fashioned a government " fuch as might beft be : fo much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by enfample , than by rule . So have " I laboured to ...
... fuch as it fhould be ; but the other , in the per- " fon of Cyrus and the Perfians , fashioned a government " fuch as might beft be : fo much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by enfample , than by rule . So have " I laboured to ...
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... fuch a fimilitude , as would not disguise the fact he intended to commemorate . Of MILTON'S PARADISE LOST . The poem ... fuch bold and noble ftrokes , and delivered in fuch nervous language , that the reader , forgetting his frail ...
... fuch a fimilitude , as would not disguise the fact he intended to commemorate . Of MILTON'S PARADISE LOST . The poem ... fuch bold and noble ftrokes , and delivered in fuch nervous language , that the reader , forgetting his frail ...
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... fuch rich ornaments , as no modern poet can use with any propriety ; for the celeftial machinery which appears to fuch advantage in the works of thefe poets , would at this time be abfurd in any other ; and that they are feen to ...
... fuch rich ornaments , as no modern poet can use with any propriety ; for the celeftial machinery which appears to fuch advantage in the works of thefe poets , would at this time be abfurd in any other ; and that they are feen to ...
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