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... Poetry is a mixture of History and Fable ; the foundation is hiftorical , because the Poet does not entirely neglect truth ; the reft is fabulous , because naked truth would not be fufficiently furpri- . zing ; for the Marvellous ought ...
... Poetry is a mixture of History and Fable ; the foundation is hiftorical , because the Poet does not entirely neglect truth ; the reft is fabulous , because naked truth would not be fufficiently furpri- . zing ; for the Marvellous ought ...
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... Poet , fays that Author , ought to pre- fer things impoffible , provided they are probable , before things possible , that are nevertheless incredible . Chap 15. This rule is not with- out obfcurity ; but Monfieur Dacier has explain'd ...
... Poet , fays that Author , ought to pre- fer things impoffible , provided they are probable , before things possible , that are nevertheless incredible . Chap 15. This rule is not with- out obfcurity ; but Monfieur Dacier has explain'd ...
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... Poet is at liberty to relate a falshood , provided it be commonly believed to be true . We might have recourfe to this laft rule , which is likewife laid down by Ariftotle , to vindicate the Odyffey , if there were occafion for it ; for ...
... Poet is at liberty to relate a falshood , provided it be commonly believed to be true . We might have recourfe to this laft rule , which is likewife laid down by Ariftotle , to vindicate the Odyffey , if there were occafion for it ; for ...
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... Poetry . The folution alfo of Bochart is worth our notice : Homer bor- rowed the word Alohas from the Pheacian Aol , which fignifies a whirlwind or tempeft , from whence the Greeks form'd their word diana's the Phaacians obferving the ...
... Poetry . The folution alfo of Bochart is worth our notice : Homer bor- rowed the word Alohas from the Pheacian Aol , which fignifies a whirlwind or tempeft , from whence the Greeks form'd their word diana's the Phaacians obferving the ...
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... Poetry , where a feeming or a real truth may be used indifferently . V. 5. Six bloom ng youths and fix fair ... Poet makes him the governor of the winds , and gives him twelve children , thefe denote the twelve principal winds ; half of ...
... Poetry , where a feeming or a real truth may be used indifferently . V. 5. Six bloom ng youths and fix fair ... Poet makes him the governor of the winds , and gives him twelve children , thefe denote the twelve principal winds ; half of ...
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Alcinous Anticlea Antients becauſe breaft caft call'd Charybdis Cimmerians Circe coaft companions confequently Dacier Dæmon death defcends defcribes defcription dire divine dreadful Enipeus Epic Poetry Euftathius Eumans Eumaus Eurylochus Eurypylus ev'ry exprefs fable facred fafe faid fame fate fays feaſt feem felf fhades fhall fhews fhip fhore fhort fhould fignifies filent firft flain fleep fome foul fpeaks ftand ftill ftory fuch gives Goddeſs Gods heav'n Hell herds Herodotus Heroe Hiftory himſelf Homer honour Idomeneus Ifland Iliad infernal inftance Jove King land loft moſt muſt Neptune night o'er obferves occafion Odyffey Odyssey Orchomenos paffage perfon Phaacians pleaſure Plutarch Poet Poetry pow'r reafon reft reprefented rife rocks Scylla ſhade ſhe ſhore ſpeaks ſpread ſtory Strabo Symplegades Telegonus Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tranflated Ulyffes underſtand uſed veffel verfe verſes Virgil whofe wife winds wiſdom woes words καὶ