The Alliance of Musick, Poetry and Oratory: Under the Head of Poetry Is Considered the Alliance and Nature of the Epic and Dramatic Poem As It Exists in the Iliad, Aeneid, and Paradise Lost (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Alliance of Musick, Poetry and Oratory: Under the Head of Poetry Is Considered the Alliance and Nature of the Epic and Dramatic Poem as It Exists in the Iliad, Aeneid, and Paradise Lost

Mufick, indeed, if traced up to its ori gin, will be found the firft and immediate daughter of nature, while poetry and ora tory are only near relations of mufick, mere imitations of nature, and the daugh ters of infirué'tion and art.

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