This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ... him likewise to think and speak in an elevated way, above the vulgar, and in a style that may in some sort keep up the character of the divine persons he introduces. c To this end serve the poetical and figurative expression, and the majesty of the heroic verse. But all this, being divine and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ... him likewise to think and speak in an elevated way, above the vulgar, and in a style that may in some sort keep up the character of the divine persons he introduces. c To this end serve the poetical and figurative expression, and the majesty of the heroic verse. But all this, being divine and surprising, may quite ruin all probability: therefore the poet should take a peculiar care as to that point, since his chief aim is to instruct, and without probability any action is less likely to persuade. Lastly, since precepts ought to be concise/ to be the more easily conceived, and less oppress the memory, and since nothing can be more effectual to this end than proposing one single idea, and collecting all things so well together, as to be present to our minds all at once; therefore the poets have reduced all to one single action/ under one and the same design, and in a body whose members and parts should be homogeneous. What we have obsen ed of the nature of the epic poem gives us a just idea of it, and we may define it thus: ' The epic poem is a discourse invented by art, to form the manners, by such instructions as are disguised * Cui mens drvinior atque os Magna sontiturum, des Nominis hujus honorem. Horat.
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