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Side 100
... poet . There may be fancy without judgment ; and in that case men write pretty things , nay sometimes are brilliant ; but they never accomplish what is truly great . It is impossible to be poetical without the subject admits of it ...
... poet . There may be fancy without judgment ; and in that case men write pretty things , nay sometimes are brilliant ; but they never accomplish what is truly great . It is impossible to be poetical without the subject admits of it ...
Side 104
... if two men are equally gifted with the powers of fancy , he that knows most will be the best poet . The great reading of Milton serves constantly to enrich his poem , and keep alive the attention of his reader , by fine and 104 THOUGHTS ...
... if two men are equally gifted with the powers of fancy , he that knows most will be the best poet . The great reading of Milton serves constantly to enrich his poem , and keep alive the attention of his reader , by fine and 104 THOUGHTS ...
Side 105
... dicule . Something of this kind was however attempted some years ago in Byshe's Art of Poetry , where a kind of common - place book is exhibited of poetic ideas suited to a variety of subjects F5 LANGUAGE OF POETRY . 105.
... dicule . Something of this kind was however attempted some years ago in Byshe's Art of Poetry , where a kind of common - place book is exhibited of poetic ideas suited to a variety of subjects F5 LANGUAGE OF POETRY . 105.
Side 106
... poet 1 am . sure this is the soundest advice that can be given . The really good poets are few , and to these he ought to give such attention as to be master of their style of thinking , of every pe- culiar form in which they express ...
... poet 1 am . sure this is the soundest advice that can be given . The really good poets are few , and to these he ought to give such attention as to be master of their style of thinking , of every pe- culiar form in which they express ...
Side 107
... poet I almost idolize , I seem some- times to have discovered this fault . The beau- tiful lines , which on a former occasion I quoted from the 3d Georgic- 66 Optima quæque dies , " & c . I have always thought misplaced , and much too ...
... poet I almost idolize , I seem some- times to have discovered this fault . The beau- tiful lines , which on a former occasion I quoted from the 3d Georgic- 66 Optima quæque dies , " & c . I have always thought misplaced , and much too ...
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