The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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Page 339
... observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign , compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield . I have ...
... observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign , compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield . I have ...
Page 553
... observed by Aristotle that the author of a heroic poem should seldom speak himself , but throw as much of his work as he can into the mouths of those who are his principal actors . Aristotle has given no reason for this precept , but I ...
... observed by Aristotle that the author of a heroic poem should seldom speak himself , but throw as much of his work as he can into the mouths of those who are his principal actors . Aristotle has given no reason for this precept , but I ...
Page 607
... observed ; much is to be discovered and invented . Imagina- tion , however , in general exerts itself with more success in the arts than in the sciences , in the former of which its success is more rapid than in the latter . Active as ...
... observed ; much is to be discovered and invented . Imagina- tion , however , in general exerts itself with more success in the arts than in the sciences , in the former of which its success is more rapid than in the latter . Active as ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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