The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 160
... paffions and affections , to lead us to virtue , and convey inftructions to the mind , masked under the mode of pleasure . But the Poet is to confider , that he has now left the borders of fairy land , and is got into real life , where ...
... paffions and affections , to lead us to virtue , and convey inftructions to the mind , masked under the mode of pleasure . But the Poet is to confider , that he has now left the borders of fairy land , and is got into real life , where ...
Page 166
John Newbery. refines and purges the paffions . By refining the paf- fions is meant the reducing them to proper bounds ; for Tragedy , by fhewing the miferies that attend the fub- jection to them , teaches us to watch them more narrow ...
John Newbery. refines and purges the paffions . By refining the paf- fions is meant the reducing them to proper bounds ; for Tragedy , by fhewing the miferies that attend the fub- jection to them , teaches us to watch them more narrow ...
Page 218
... paffions , in his interview between Priam and Achilles ; than which nothing can be more noble , and at the fame time more affecting . We have in a former work obferved , that feafonable filence has its emphafis , and that a mournful ex ...
... paffions , in his interview between Priam and Achilles ; than which nothing can be more noble , and at the fame time more affecting . We have in a former work obferved , that feafonable filence has its emphafis , and that a mournful ex ...
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