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Torquato Tasso. speak an almost alien tongue . But [ Aristotle's ] further words suggest that common terms make a ... speaking of the dawn : With her forehead of roses , [ and her ] golden hair.1 But Dante before him had said of the ...
Torquato Tasso. speak an almost alien tongue . But [ Aristotle's ] further words suggest that common terms make a ... speaking of the dawn : With her forehead of roses , [ and her ] golden hair.1 But Dante before him had said of the ...
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... speaking , less unlike the ordin- ary . Perhaps the chorus should speak more loftily , since as Aristotle says in the Problems it stands as guardian , so to speak , inactive and apart . For the same reason the poet speaks more loftily ...
... speaking , less unlike the ordin- ary . Perhaps the chorus should speak more loftily , since as Aristotle says in the Problems it stands as guardian , so to speak , inactive and apart . For the same reason the poet speaks more loftily ...
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... speak with any degree of ornament . For the moment it is enough to affirm that poetry is an art subordinate to logic , indeed a part of it , not just because it is that art of speaking which seeks delight , just as grammar seeks ...
... speak with any degree of ornament . For the moment it is enough to affirm that poetry is an art subordinate to logic , indeed a part of it , not just because it is that art of speaking which seeks delight , just as grammar seeks ...
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