The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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A man with great talents , but void of discretion , is like Polyphemus in the fable , strong and blind , endued with an irresistible force , which for want of sight is of no use to him . Though a man has all other perfections ...
A man with great talents , but void of discretion , is like Polyphemus in the fable , strong and blind , endued with an irresistible force , which for want of sight is of no use to him . Though a man has all other perfections ...
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Plato expresses his abhorrence of some fables of the poets , which seem to reflect on the gods as the authors of injustice ; and lays it down as a principle , } " 1 L * e , d r y of to m siFin od 2 30 SPECTATOR . NO .
Plato expresses his abhorrence of some fables of the poets , which seem to reflect on the gods as the authors of injustice ; and lays it down as a principle , } " 1 L * e , d r y of to m siFin od 2 30 SPECTATOR . NO .
Side 91
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 it 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 it it .
Side 92
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 imputing it in ...
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 imputing it in ...
Side 96
This is Aristotle's method of considering , first the fable , 2 ) 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 ...
This is Aristotle's method of considering , first the fable , 2 ) 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 ...
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