A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed Mr. Addison's Criticism on Paradise LostJ. and R. Tonson, 1762 - 144 pages |
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... Sentiments and the Lan-- guage . Before I enter upon the first of thefe , I muft advertise my Reader , that it is my Defign as foon as I have finished my general Reflexions on these four feveral Heads , to give particular Inftances out ...
... Sentiments and the Lan-- guage . Before I enter upon the first of thefe , I muft advertise my Reader , that it is my Defign as foon as I have finished my general Reflexions on these four feveral Heads , to give particular Inftances out ...
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... Sentiments have likewife a Relation to Things as well as Perfons , and are then perfect when they are fuch as are adapted to the Subject . If in either of thefe Cafes the Poet endeavours to argue or explain , to magnify or diminish , to ...
... Sentiments have likewife a Relation to Things as well as Perfons , and are then perfect when they are fuch as are adapted to the Subject . If in either of thefe Cafes the Poet endeavours to argue or explain , to magnify or diminish , to ...
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... Sentiments . Loves of Dido and Eneas are only Copies of what has , paffed between other Perfons . Adam and Eve before the Fall , are a different Species from that of Mankind , who are defcended from them , and none but a Poet of the ...
... Sentiments . Loves of Dido and Eneas are only Copies of what has , paffed between other Perfons . Adam and Eve before the Fall , are a different Species from that of Mankind , who are defcended from them , and none but a Poet of the ...
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... Sentiments , the Natural and the Sublime , which are always to be purfued in an heroic Poem , there are alfo two Kinds of Thoughts which are carefully to be avoided . The firft are fuch as are affected and unnatural ; the second such as ...
... Sentiments , the Natural and the Sublime , which are always to be purfued in an heroic Poem , there are alfo two Kinds of Thoughts which are carefully to be avoided . The firft are fuch as are affected and unnatural ; the second such as ...
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... Sentiments which raife Laughter , can very feldom be admitted with any Decency into an heroic Poem , whofe Bufinefs is to excite Paffions of a much nobler Nature . Homer , however , in his Characters of Vulcan and Therfites , in his ...
... Sentiments which raife Laughter , can very feldom be admitted with any Decency into an heroic Poem , whofe Bufinefs is to excite Paffions of a much nobler Nature . Homer , however , in his Characters of Vulcan and Therfites , in his ...
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