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... poet . I recollect with pleasure how welcome this slight essay then was to you ; and am secure of the kind reception you will now give to it ; improved , as I think it is , in some respects , and presented to you in this public way . I ...
... poet . I recollect with pleasure how welcome this slight essay then was to you ; and am secure of the kind reception you will now give to it ; improved , as I think it is , in some respects , and presented to you in this public way . I ...
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... poet's purpose had been to write a criticism of the art of poetry at large , and not , as is here shewn , of the Roman drama in parti- cular . But there is something more to be observed , in the case of HEINSIUS . For , as will be made ...
... poet's purpose had been to write a criticism of the art of poetry at large , and not , as is here shewn , of the Roman drama in parti- cular . But there is something more to be observed , in the case of HEINSIUS . For , as will be made ...
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... poet's conduct of this , i . e . the didactic epistle . For , 1. The subject of each epistle is one : that is , one single point is prosecuted through the whole piece , notwithstanding that the address of the poet , and the delicacy of ...
... poet's conduct of this , i . e . the didactic epistle . For , 1. The subject of each epistle is one : that is , one single point is prosecuted through the whole piece , notwithstanding that the address of the poet , and the delicacy of ...
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... poet's design , and opens with that air of ease and negligence , essential to the epistolary form . II . The main body of the epistle [ from v . 89 to 295 ] is laid out in regulating the Roman stage ; but chiefly in giving rules for ...
... poet's design , and opens with that air of ease and negligence , essential to the epistolary form . II . The main body of the epistle [ from v . 89 to 295 ] is laid out in regulating the Roman stage ; but chiefly in giving rules for ...
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... poetic licence [ v . 10 ] and , 2. Of poetic perfection [ v . 25 ] . But the same causes will equally affect the language ... poet only gives di- rections about new words : or , since every language is necessarily imperfect , about the ...
... poetic licence [ v . 10 ] and , 2. Of poetic perfection [ v . 25 ] . But the same causes will equally affect the language ... poet only gives di- rections about new words : or , since every language is necessarily imperfect , about the ...
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Page 18 - Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ, Yet judg'd with coolness, tho' he sung with fire; His precepts teach but what his works inspire.
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