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I say it would look like a fable to report that this gentlenian gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune , by secret methods , to other men . If he has not the pomp of a numerous train , and of profeffors of service to ...
I say it would look like a fable to report that this gentlenian gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune , by secret methods , to other men . If he has not the pomp of a numerous train , and of profeffors of service to ...
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The first thing to be considered in an epic poem , is the fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates is more or less so . This action should have three qualifications in it .
The first thing to be considered in an epic poem , is the fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates is more or less so . This action should have three qualifications in it .
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Aristotle himself allows , that Homer has nothing to : boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same : time that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this , imperfection in the Greek poet by im .. puting it ...
Aristotle himself allows , that Homer has nothing to : boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same : time that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this , imperfection in the Greek poet by im .. puting it ...
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This is Aristotle's method of confidering , first the fable , and secondly the manners ; or , as we generally call them in English , the fable and the characters . Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude ...
This is Aristotle's method of confidering , first the fable , and secondly the manners ; or , as we generally call them in English , the fable and the characters . Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude ...
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If we look into the characters of Milton , we shall find that he has introduced all the variety his fable was capain two persons at the whole species of mankind was time to which the subject of ...
If we look into the characters of Milton , we shall find that he has introduced all the variety his fable was capain two persons at the whole species of mankind was time to which the subject of ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 4 The Spectator, Sir Richard Steele |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 4 Sep 2019 |
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