Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... imitation , or faining ; expressing the life of man in fit measure , numbers , and harmony , according to Aristotle . . . . Now , the Poesy is the habit , or the Art : nay , rather the Queene of Arts : which had her Originall from ...
... imitation , or faining ; expressing the life of man in fit measure , numbers , and harmony , according to Aristotle . . . . Now , the Poesy is the habit , or the Art : nay , rather the Queene of Arts : which had her Originall from ...
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... imitation " of the classics , which were close to Na- ture ; and imitation was to be conducted according to the Rules , which Reason had derived from the scrutiny of Nature . During the reign of Louis XIV ( 1661-1715 ) , the ...
... imitation " of the classics , which were close to Na- ture ; and imitation was to be conducted according to the Rules , which Reason had derived from the scrutiny of Nature . During the reign of Louis XIV ( 1661-1715 ) , the ...
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... imitate servilely , as Horace saith , and catch at vices , for vertue : but , to draw forth out of the best , and choisest flowers , with the Bee , and turne all into Honey , worke it into one relish , and savour : make our Imitation ...
... imitate servilely , as Horace saith , and catch at vices , for vertue : but , to draw forth out of the best , and choisest flowers , with the Bee , and turne all into Honey , worke it into one relish , and savour : make our Imitation ...
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