The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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... introduced are only the affections of the mind re- prefented in a vifible fhape and character . They tell us , fays he , that Achilles in the firft Iliad reprefents anger , or the irrafcible part of human nature ; that upon drawing his ...
... introduced are only the affections of the mind re- prefented in a vifible fhape and character . They tell us , fays he , that Achilles in the firft Iliad reprefents anger , or the irrafcible part of human nature ; that upon drawing his ...
Page 313
... introduced is the most proper that could be employed on that particular occafion , I call it well adapted . This I take to be the cafe in Virgil's introducing Mercury , on the occafion abovementioned . It was a suppofed fact , among the ...
... introduced is the most proper that could be employed on that particular occafion , I call it well adapted . This I take to be the cafe in Virgil's introducing Mercury , on the occafion abovementioned . It was a suppofed fact , among the ...
Page 369
... introduced are pagans , it would have admitted of the fame machinery with that of Homer and Virgil : but as the fubject under confideration , has ever been received and ac- knowledged as matter of fact , the poet was unwilling , we may ...
... introduced are pagans , it would have admitted of the fame machinery with that of Homer and Virgil : but as the fubject under confideration , has ever been received and ac- knowledged as matter of fact , the poet was unwilling , we may ...
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