The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 182
... noble , and fublime . See Boileau's thoughts upon Epic Poetry , in the fol- lowing verfes . Would you your reader never fhould be ' tir'd ? Chufe fome great Hero , fit to be admir'd , In courage fignal , and in virtue bright ; Let ev'n ...
... noble , and fublime . See Boileau's thoughts upon Epic Poetry , in the fol- lowing verfes . Would you your reader never fhould be ' tir'd ? Chufe fome great Hero , fit to be admir'd , In courage fignal , and in virtue bright ; Let ev'n ...
Page 318
... noble ftrokes , and delivered in fuch nervous language , that the reader , forgetting his frail fituation , feems hur- ried on from heaven to earth and hell , and fancies him- felf acquainted with the awful perfonages prefented to his ...
... noble ftrokes , and delivered in fuch nervous language , that the reader , forgetting his frail fituation , feems hur- ried on from heaven to earth and hell , and fancies him- felf acquainted with the awful perfonages prefented to his ...
Page 381
... noble , elegant and proper . Shakespeare pleases us more than any dramatic poet of his time ; because , as he has confulted nature more than books , his thoughts are , for the most part , new and noble . He faw or felt the things he has ...
... noble , elegant and proper . Shakespeare pleases us more than any dramatic poet of his time ; because , as he has confulted nature more than books , his thoughts are , for the most part , new and noble . He faw or felt the things he has ...
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