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Page viii
For what there is in any Poeni , which is out of Nature , and contrary to
Verifimilitude and Probability , can never be Beautiful , but Abominable . For the
Business of Poetry is to copy Nature trucly , and observc Probability and
Verifnilirude juftly ...
For what there is in any Poeni , which is out of Nature , and contrary to
Verifimilitude and Probability , can never be Beautiful , but Abominable . For the
Business of Poetry is to copy Nature trucly , and observc Probability and
Verifnilirude juftly ...
Page ix
Nature , Nature is the great Cry against the Rules . We must be judg'd by Nature ,
Tay they , not at all , considering , that Nature is an equivocal Word , whose
Sense is too various and Extenfive ever to be able to appeal too , since it leaves it
to ...
Nature , Nature is the great Cry against the Rules . We must be judg'd by Nature ,
Tay they , not at all , considering , that Nature is an equivocal Word , whose
Sense is too various and Extenfive ever to be able to appeal too , since it leaves it
to ...
Page xxvii
Figures of Speech which Poets think fo fine , Arts . Aeedless Varnish to make
Nature line , Are all but Paint upon a beauteous Face , And in Discriptions only
can have place . But to make Rage declaim ; and Grief Discourse ; From Lovers
in ...
Figures of Speech which Poets think fo fine , Arts . Aeedless Varnish to make
Nature line , Are all but Paint upon a beauteous Face , And in Discriptions only
can have place . But to make Rage declaim ; and Grief Discourse ; From Lovers
in ...
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Essay on the Art Rise and Progress of the Stage in Greece Rome | i |
The Glossary Ixviü | lxix |
Venus and Adonis | 1 |
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