The Complete Art of Poetry, Volume 1Garland, 1970 |
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... Excellence , and what Nature might have done ) but to bestow a Cyrus on the World , who fhou'd make many Cyrus's , if they will truly learn and confider how that Poet , or Maker , made him , Nor let any one think the Comparifon to be ...
... Excellence , and what Nature might have done ) but to bestow a Cyrus on the World , who fhou'd make many Cyrus's , if they will truly learn and confider how that Poet , or Maker , made him , Nor let any one think the Comparifon to be ...
Page 100
... Excellence being , therefore , fo confefs'd , and the Ambition of it fo general , the Rules that direct our Course to it , and distinguish the right Road from the various divious Paths , must certainly be agreea- ble to all , who have a ...
... Excellence being , therefore , fo confefs'd , and the Ambition of it fo general , the Rules that direct our Course to it , and distinguish the right Road from the various divious Paths , must certainly be agreea- ble to all , who have a ...
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Charles Gildon. Judge may know the Excellence or Defect of the Per- former . Thus in Landskip the Painter ought to be skill'd in Perspective , elfe can he never know the Proportions , in regard of the ... Excellence or Defect of the Per- ...
Charles Gildon. Judge may know the Excellence or Defect of the Per- former . Thus in Landskip the Painter ought to be skill'd in Perspective , elfe can he never know the Proportions , in regard of the ... Excellence or Defect of the Per- ...
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abfurd Action admirable affum'd againſt agreeable Antients Ariftotle Art of Poetry Author Beauty becauſe beſt Catullus Caufe Cauſe Comedy confefs Confequence confifts cou'd Critic Defign Defire Difcourfe difcover Efay English Epigram Euripides Excellence Expreffion Fable faid fame feems felf fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes fpeak ftill fuch fufficient fure Genius give greateſt Greek Heroic Poem Hiftory himſelf Homer Horace Ibid Imitation Inftructions Judgment juft Juftice King Ladies laft Laudon leaft Learning leaſt lefs Love Mafter Manilia Manners Meaſure moft Morifina moſt Mufic muft muſt Nature neceffary never Numbers obferve Paffions perfect Perfon Philofopher Pindar pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poefy Poet Poetical Praife Praiſe prefent produc'd Profe Reaſon Rules Senfe ſhall Sophocles Tafte Tatler thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought Tragedy Underſtanding uſe Verfe Verſe Virgil Virtue whofe Words World wou'd write