Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenOctagon Books, 1967 - 568 pàgines |
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... poetry 52 Téxνn μμпTIKÝ2 , an imitative art , these writers will without great wrong lose their right to the name of poets , for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the ...
... poetry 52 Téxνn μμпTIKÝ2 , an imitative art , these writers will without great wrong lose their right to the name of poets , for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the ...
Pàgina 192
... poetry " . But perhaps of poetry as a mental operation metre or musick is no necessary adjunct ; it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been discriminated in all languages , and in languages melodiously constructed with a ...
... poetry " . But perhaps of poetry as a mental operation metre or musick is no necessary adjunct ; it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been discriminated in all languages , and in languages melodiously constructed with a ...
Pàgina 292
... poetry the reader justly expects , and from good poetry always obtains , the enlargement of his comprehension and eleva- tion of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion . Whatever is great ...
... poetry the reader justly expects , and from good poetry always obtains , the enlargement of his comprehension and eleva- tion of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion . Whatever is great ...
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