Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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Page 135
... excellent rest- ing place for all worldly learning to make his end of , so poetry , being the most familiar to teach it and most princely to move to- wards it in the most excellent work is the most excellent workman . But I am content ...
... excellent rest- ing place for all worldly learning to make his end of , so poetry , being the most familiar to teach it and most princely to move to- wards it in the most excellent work is the most excellent workman . But I am content ...
Page 169
... excellent poets that fulfilled them . Amongst whom none more perfect than Sophocles , who lived a little before Aristotle . Which of the Greeklings durst ever give precepts to Demosthenes ? Or to Pericles , whom the age surnamed ...
... excellent poets that fulfilled them . Amongst whom none more perfect than Sophocles , who lived a little before Aristotle . Which of the Greeklings durst ever give precepts to Demosthenes ? Or to Pericles , whom the age surnamed ...
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... excellent plays of Shakespeare , Fletcher , and Ben Jonson , which have been written out of rhyme , that except you could bring them such as were written better in it , and those too by persons of equal reputation with them , it will be ...
... excellent plays of Shakespeare , Fletcher , and Ben Jonson , which have been written out of rhyme , that except you could bring them such as were written better in it , and those too by persons of equal reputation with them , it will be ...
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