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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... fubject to violent Paffions fhould refrain from ftrong Liquors ibid . Of the Ufe of Mufick in foothing the Paffions Of the Power of Poetry and Mufick united ibid . 232 Of the great use of Didactic Poetry ibid . of Of the ufe of Episodes ...
... fubject to violent Paffions fhould refrain from ftrong Liquors ibid . Of the Ufe of Mufick in foothing the Paffions Of the Power of Poetry and Mufick united ibid . 232 Of the great use of Didactic Poetry ibid . of Of the ufe of Episodes ...
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... fubject , by way of advice to many of our prefent writers , who feem to lay the whole ftrefs of their endeavours upon the Harmony of words : Like Eunuchs they facrifice their manhood for a voice , and reduce our Poetry to be like Echo ...
... fubject , by way of advice to many of our prefent writers , who feem to lay the whole ftrefs of their endeavours upon the Harmony of words : Like Eunuchs they facrifice their manhood for a voice , and reduce our Poetry to be like Echo ...
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... fubject . And obferve , that though verfes confifting wholly of monofyllables are not always to be condemned , ( nay , poffibly may be very good ) yet they ought to be feldom ufed , a feries of little low words having generally an ill ...
... fubject . And obferve , that though verfes confifting wholly of monofyllables are not always to be condemned , ( nay , poffibly may be very good ) yet they ought to be feldom ufed , a feries of little low words having generally an ill ...
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... fubjects , which are the foundation- of elegance and fublimity . Thoughts may , not improperly , be called the founda ... fubject treated of , and feem fo infeparable from it , that we cannot conceive how it could have been otherwife ...
... fubjects , which are the foundation- of elegance and fublimity . Thoughts may , not improperly , be called the founda ... fubject treated of , and feem fo infeparable from it , that we cannot conceive how it could have been otherwife ...
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... thoughts , it is not fufficient that they have nothing in them falje , for fometimes thoughts may become trivial by being only When Cicero applauds Craffus on the fubject of his thoughts Of the BEAUTY of THOUGHT . 19.
... thoughts , it is not fufficient that they have nothing in them falje , for fometimes thoughts may become trivial by being only When Cicero applauds Craffus on the fubject of his thoughts Of the BEAUTY of THOUGHT . 19.
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