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Besides , it is impossible for a writer to be upon the sublime and the beautiful
from one end of his piece to the other , nor will any subject admit of it ; some
things must occur that require common thoughts and a common stile ; but if they
did not ...
Besides , it is impossible for a writer to be upon the sublime and the beautiful
from one end of his piece to the other , nor will any subject admit of it ; some
things must occur that require common thoughts and a common stile ; but if they
did not ...
Էջ 46
Similes need not be always drawn from lofty subjects ; for those taken from
common things are significant and agreeable , if they are cloathed with proper
expressions , and paint in strong and lively colours the things we intend they
should ...
Similes need not be always drawn from lofty subjects ; for those taken from
common things are significant and agreeable , if they are cloathed with proper
expressions , and paint in strong and lively colours the things we intend they
should ...
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judgment considers that many things must be left to gratify the imagination of the
reader , and therefore cuts off all superfluities , however pleasing , and rejects
every thing that would seem abrupt and foreign to his subject . He difcards
likewise ...
judgment considers that many things must be left to gratify the imagination of the
reader , and therefore cuts off all superfluities , however pleasing , and rejects
every thing that would seem abrupt and foreign to his subject . He difcards
likewise ...
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No epigrammatic points or conceits , none of those fine things which moft people
are so fond of in every fort of poem , can be allow'd in this , but must give place to
nobler beauties , those of Nature and the Passions . Elegy rejects whatever is ...
No epigrammatic points or conceits , none of those fine things which moft people
are so fond of in every fort of poem , can be allow'd in this , but must give place to
nobler beauties , those of Nature and the Passions . Elegy rejects whatever is ...
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On the firft subject , indeed , we have scarce any thing that deserves the name of
poetry , except Mr. Pope's El ay on Man ... that we can judge only with regard to
our own fyftem , fince we are ignorant of the relations of other systems and things
...
On the firft subject , indeed , we have scarce any thing that deserves the name of
poetry , except Mr. Pope's El ay on Man ... that we can judge only with regard to
our own fyftem , fince we are ignorant of the relations of other systems and things
...
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