The Spectator, Volume 6Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 - English essays |
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... nature . Aristotle observes , that the fable of an epic poem should abound in circumstances that are both credible and astonishing ; or , as the French critics choose to phrase it , the fable should be filled with the probable and the ...
... nature . Aristotle observes , that the fable of an epic poem should abound in circumstances that are both credible and astonishing ; or , as the French critics choose to phrase it , the fable should be filled with the probable and the ...
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... nature suggested , and from the other , such as flowed from the exactest art , and judgment : though I must confess that my curio sity led me so much to observe the knight's re- flections , that I was not well at leisure to improve ...
... nature suggested , and from the other , such as flowed from the exactest art , and judgment : though I must confess that my curio sity led me so much to observe the knight's re- flections , that I was not well at leisure to improve ...
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... nature are those expressions , where , describing the sing- ing of the nightingale , he adds . Silence was pleased ; ' and upon the Messiah's bidding peace to the chaos , Confusion heard his voice . ' I might add innumerable instances ...
... nature are those expressions , where , describing the sing- ing of the nightingale , he adds . Silence was pleased ; ' and upon the Messiah's bidding peace to the chaos , Confusion heard his voice . ' I might add innumerable instances ...
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