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... against the law of UNITY . To 1. 23 is confidered and expofed that particular violation of uniformity , into which young poets efpecially , under the impulfe of a warm imagination , are apt to run , arifing from frequent and ill - timed ...
... against the law of UNITY . To 1. 23 is confidered and expofed that particular violation of uniformity , into which young poets efpecially , under the impulfe of a warm imagination , are apt to run , arifing from frequent and ill - timed ...
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... against fervility of imitation in point of characters , the poet chofe to dispatch the whole affair of fervile imitation at once , and therefore [ to l . 136 ] includes fubjects , as well as characters . But this very advice , about ...
... against fervility of imitation in point of characters , the poet chofe to dispatch the whole affair of fervile imitation at once , and therefore [ to l . 136 ] includes fubjects , as well as characters . But this very advice , about ...
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... a few fanlts . Nay , he goes on [ from ] 1. 360 to 366 ] to obferve in favour of writers , against their too rigorous cenfures , that what were often called Ut pictura , poëfis : erit quae , fi propius 28 * Q. HORATII FLACCI.
... a few fanlts . Nay , he goes on [ from ] 1. 360 to 366 ] to obferve in favour of writers , against their too rigorous cenfures , that what were often called Ut pictura , poëfis : erit quae , fi propius 28 * Q. HORATII FLACCI.
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... against the tragic poem ; it being more glaringly inconfiftent with the genius of the drama to admit of foreign and digreffive ornaments , than of the extended , epifodical epo- poeia . For both these reafons it was altogether pertinent ...
... against the tragic poem ; it being more glaringly inconfiftent with the genius of the drama to admit of foreign and digreffive ornaments , than of the extended , epifodical epo- poeia . For both these reafons it was altogether pertinent ...
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... against the force of the Doctor's objections . 46. IN VERBIS ETIAM TENUIS , & c . ] I have faid , that thefe preparatory obfervations , concern- ing an unity of defign , the abuse of language , and the different colourings of the ...
... against the force of the Doctor's objections . 46. IN VERBIS ETIAM TENUIS , & c . ] I have faid , that thefe preparatory obfervations , concern- ing an unity of defign , the abuse of language , and the different colourings of the ...
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