An Apology for PoetryBobbs-Merrill, 1970 - 95 pages |
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... particular objects in any class . If the poet can translate his general " Idea " into the words of a poem , then he will have produced a moral exam- ple superior to the specific or particular objects of external nature . Like Cooper's ...
... particular objects in any class . If the poet can translate his general " Idea " into the words of a poem , then he will have produced a moral exam- ple superior to the specific or particular objects of external nature . Like Cooper's ...
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... particular truth of things and not to the general reason of things , that his example draweth no necessary consequence , and therefore a less fruitful doctrine.117 Now doth the peerless poet perform both : for whatsoever the philosopher ...
... particular truth of things and not to the general reason of things , that his example draweth no necessary consequence , and therefore a less fruitful doctrine.117 Now doth the peerless poet perform both : for whatsoever the philosopher ...
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... particular : now , saith he , the universal weighs what is fit to be said or done , either in likelihood or necessity ( which the poesy considereth in his imposed names ) , and the particular only marks whether Alcibiades did or ...
... particular : now , saith he , the universal weighs what is fit to be said or done , either in likelihood or necessity ( which the poesy considereth in his imposed names ) , and the particular only marks whether Alcibiades did or ...
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