Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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... imitation . They differ , however , from one another in three respects - the medium , the objects , the manner or mode of imitation , being in each case distinct . For as there are persons who , by conscious art or mere habit , imitate ...
... imitation . They differ , however , from one another in three respects - the medium , the objects , the manner or mode of imitation , being in each case distinct . For as there are persons who , by conscious art or mere habit , imitate ...
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... imitation . IV Poetry in general seems to have sprung from two causes , each of them lying deep in our nature . First , the instinct of imitation is im- planted in man from childhood , one difference between him and other animals being ...
... imitation . IV Poetry in general seems to have sprung from two causes , each of them lying deep in our nature . First , the instinct of imitation is im- planted in man from childhood , one difference between him and other animals being ...
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... imitation of an action , and an action implies personal agents who necessarily possess certain distinctive qualities both of character and thought , for it is by these that we qualify actions themselves , and these - thought and ...
... imitation of an action , and an action implies personal agents who necessarily possess certain distinctive qualities both of character and thought , for it is by these that we qualify actions themselves , and these - thought and ...
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