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... object of his studies , he fays , i five In Liventem fatiram nigra rubigine turpes , Seu tua NON ALIA splendescat epistola CURA . [ Stat . lib . i . Sylv . Tiburt . M. V. ] plainly intimating , that the rules and labour of compofition ...
... object of his studies , he fays , i five In Liventem fatiram nigra rubigine turpes , Seu tua NON ALIA splendescat epistola CURA . [ Stat . lib . i . Sylv . Tiburt . M. V. ] plainly intimating , that the rules and labour of compofition ...
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... objects , not of criticism , but of fenti- ment . Let it fuffice then to examine the poet's practice , so far only , as we are enabled to judge of it by the ftandard of the preceding rules . III . These rules are reducible to three . 1 ...
... objects , not of criticism , but of fenti- ment . Let it fuffice then to examine the poet's practice , so far only , as we are enabled to judge of it by the ftandard of the preceding rules . III . These rules are reducible to three . 1 ...
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... never be wrought up to any trying pitch , unless the whole attention be made to fix on ne fingle object . The way to avoid both thefe faults , Tu , quid ego et populus mecum defideret , audi will 14 Q. HORATII FLACCI.
... never be wrought up to any trying pitch , unless the whole attention be made to fix on ne fingle object . The way to avoid both thefe faults , Tu , quid ego et populus mecum defideret , audi will 14 Q. HORATII FLACCI.
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... thefe [ 1. 341 to 347 ] must concur in a just piece . But here the bad poet objects the difficulty of the terms , impofed upon him , and that , if the critic looked Sunt delicta tamen , quibus ignoviffe velimus : Nam neque ARS POETICA . 27.
... thefe [ 1. 341 to 347 ] must concur in a just piece . But here the bad poet objects the difficulty of the terms , impofed upon him , and that , if the critic looked Sunt delicta tamen , quibus ignoviffe velimus : Nam neque ARS POETICA . 27.
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... objects abfolutely irre- lative , or irreducible to a whole , but which a wrong pofition of the parts only renders ... object . Nicias , the painter , used to fay [ a ] , " That the fubject was to him , what the fable is to the poet ...
... objects abfolutely irre- lative , or irreducible to a whole , but which a wrong pofition of the parts only renders ... object . Nicias , the painter , used to fay [ a ] , " That the fubject was to him , what the fable is to the poet ...
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