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... English writer , lately taken from us . In an early essay on " Poetry , with reference to Aristotle's Poetics , " Car- dinal Newman writes : - " Aristotle considers the excellence of a tragedy to depend upon its plot - and since a ...
... English writer , lately taken from us . In an early essay on " Poetry , with reference to Aristotle's Poetics , " Car- dinal Newman writes : - " Aristotle considers the excellence of a tragedy to depend upon its plot - and since a ...
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... English writer ( I believe un- consciously ) : — " Truth , narrative , and past , " says Davenant , 41 " is the idol of historians , who worship a dead thing ; and Truth opera- tive , and by her effects continually alive , is the ...
... English writer ( I believe un- consciously ) : — " Truth , narrative , and past , " says Davenant , 41 " is the idol of historians , who worship a dead thing ; and Truth opera- tive , and by her effects continually alive , is the ...
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... English word " Poetic , " and the familiar Latin title " Poetica " was ambiguous , English writers early coined the word " Poetics , " following the analogy of " Ethics , " " Politics , " etc. A word used by Milton ( see above , p . 70 ) ...
... English word " Poetic , " and the familiar Latin title " Poetica " was ambiguous , English writers early coined the word " Poetics , " following the analogy of " Ethics , " " Politics , " etc. A word used by Milton ( see above , p . 70 ) ...
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... English words . I owe my own knowledge of the paper to the kindness of the Rev. W. Lock . “ The idea , then , of poetry in the abstract is some- thing like what follows : Poetry is the indirect expression in words , most appropriately ...
... English words . I owe my own knowledge of the paper to the kindness of the Rev. W. Lock . “ The idea , then , of poetry in the abstract is some- thing like what follows : Poetry is the indirect expression in words , most appropriately ...
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... English readers may well be con- tent with the works of Dr. Moore and Mr. Wharton , while those who only wish to read the treatise in English will find Twining's translation , reprinted in 1887 in Cassell's National Library , excellent ...
... English readers may well be con- tent with the works of Dr. Moore and Mr. Wharton , while those who only wish to read the treatise in English will find Twining's translation , reprinted in 1887 in Cassell's National Library , excellent ...
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A. J. CHURCH A. S. WALPOLE A. S. WILKINS A. W. VERRALL Æschylus ALGEBRA Aristotle Aristotle's ARITHMETIC Assistant Master CLASSICAL D.Sc Dublin E. S. SHUCKBURGH Edited by Professor Edited by Rev Electra ELEMENTARY TREATISE EPISTLE Essays Euripides Exercises F.R.S. Illustrated FASNACHT Fcap feelings Fellow of Trinity G. E. FASNACHT GEOGRAPHY GEOMETRY GRAMMAR Greek Text Headmaster HISTORY Homer imitation Introduction and Notes ISAAC TODHUNTER J. P. MAHAFFY J. P. POSTGATE late LATIN Lecturer LESSONS Litt Litt.D LL.D M.A. BOOK M.A. Cr M.A. With Maps MACMILLAN'S metre Music Orestes Owens College Oxford passion PHYSICS Pity and Fear Plato play plot poet Poetics Poetry POLITICAL ECONOMY preparation Press PRIMER Prof Professor of Greek PROSE revised and enlarged ROMAN School Science sewed Sophocles T. H. HUXLEY TEXT-BOOK THEORY tion Tragedy Translated Trinity College University of Cambridge University of Dublin W. J. BRODRIBB words δὲ ἐν καὶ τοῖς τῶν
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