Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... Poesie should be as perviall as Oratorie , and plainnes her speciall ornament , were the plaine way to barbarisme : and to make the Asse runne proude of his eares ; to take away strength from Lyons , and give Cammels hornes . That ...
... Poesie should be as perviall as Oratorie , and plainnes her speciall ornament , were the plaine way to barbarisme : and to make the Asse runne proude of his eares ; to take away strength from Lyons , and give Cammels hornes . That ...
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... Poesie faineth Acts and Events Greater and more Heroicall ; because true Historie propoundeth the successes and issues of actions , not so agreable to the merits of Vertue and Vice , therefore Poesie faines them more just in Retribution ...
... Poesie faineth Acts and Events Greater and more Heroicall ; because true Historie propoundeth the successes and issues of actions , not so agreable to the merits of Vertue and Vice , therefore Poesie faines them more just in Retribution ...
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... Poesie which is aptest in the propertie therof ( besides those divisions which are common unto it with history : as fained Chronicles , fained lives , & the Appendices of History , as fained Epistles , fained Orations , and the rest ) ...
... Poesie which is aptest in the propertie therof ( besides those divisions which are common unto it with history : as fained Chronicles , fained lives , & the Appendices of History , as fained Epistles , fained Orations , and the rest ) ...
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