The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 170
... things , which the priest found with Ion when he was expofed , difcovers Creusa , whom he was going to kill to be his mother . Thirdly , by Remembrance ; that is when the fight or hearing of any thing occafions us to recollect our ...
... things , which the priest found with Ion when he was expofed , difcovers Creusa , whom he was going to kill to be his mother . Thirdly , by Remembrance ; that is when the fight or hearing of any thing occafions us to recollect our ...
Page 185
... thing is alive in Homer . There is little of Narration ; for the perfons appear as it were , before you , and speak ... thing moves , every thing lives , and is put in action . If a council be called , or a battle fought , you are not ...
... thing is alive in Homer . There is little of Narration ; for the perfons appear as it were , before you , and speak ... thing moves , every thing lives , and is put in action . If a council be called , or a battle fought , you are not ...
Page 310
... things more picturefque and pleafing . In fhort , history , if I may be allow'd the expreffion , re- cords paft tranfactions with precifion to preferve the me- mory of them to pofterity ; but poetry , by its power of reanimating every thing ...
... things more picturefque and pleafing . In fhort , history , if I may be allow'd the expreffion , re- cords paft tranfactions with precifion to preferve the me- mory of them to pofterity ; but poetry , by its power of reanimating every thing ...
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