The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith].1762 |
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Page ix
... Figures may be refolved into the Defcription Of the various Sorts of Style The Sublime Style The Plain Style Tropes and Figures beft learned by reading the Poets and polite Authors 44 45 46 47 ibid . The Mediate or Middle Style How the ...
... Figures may be refolved into the Defcription Of the various Sorts of Style The Sublime Style The Plain Style Tropes and Figures beft learned by reading the Poets and polite Authors 44 45 46 47 ibid . The Mediate or Middle Style How the ...
Page xxii
... Figures , and a Variety of beautiful and just Images ibid . In the English Language the Harmony and Beauty of Verse and Profe depend on nearly the fame Principles 358 ibid . If there is no Poetry without Verfe , CONTENTS .
... Figures , and a Variety of beautiful and just Images ibid . In the English Language the Harmony and Beauty of Verse and Profe depend on nearly the fame Principles 358 ibid . If there is no Poetry without Verfe , CONTENTS .
Page xxv
... figures were called in to exprefs its fentiments , and the diction was dignified and embellished with meta- phors , beautiful defcriptions , lively images , fimilies , and whatever elfe could help to exprefs , with force and grandeur ...
... figures were called in to exprefs its fentiments , and the diction was dignified and embellished with meta- phors , beautiful defcriptions , lively images , fimilies , and whatever elfe could help to exprefs , with force and grandeur ...
Page xxv
... figure bold , and the re- femblance according to nature , tho ' the colours hap- pen to be rough , or carelessly laid on , yet the picture fhall lofe nothing of its efteem . Such are many of the inestimable pieces of Raphael : whereas ...
... figure bold , and the re- femblance according to nature , tho ' the colours hap- pen to be rough , or carelessly laid on , yet the picture fhall lofe nothing of its efteem . Such are many of the inestimable pieces of Raphael : whereas ...
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... figures , and fictions , when they are of any value , are raised on the foundation of right reafon ; they have truth for their bafis , which is recommended and rendered more amiable by thofe airy disguises . To think juftly , therefore ...
... figures , and fictions , when they are of any value , are raised on the foundation of right reafon ; they have truth for their bafis , which is recommended and rendered more amiable by thofe airy disguises . To think juftly , therefore ...
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