The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney D. C. Heath, 1980 - 765 pages |
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Page 575
... Nature , let men judge ever so ridiculously of music . So is symmetry and proportion founded still in Nature , let men's fancy prove ever so barbarous , or their fashions ever so Gothic in their architec- ture , sculpture , or whatever ...
... Nature , let men judge ever so ridiculously of music . So is symmetry and proportion founded still in Nature , let men's fancy prove ever so barbarous , or their fashions ever so Gothic in their architec- ture , sculpture , or whatever ...
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... Nature : imitate ; but imitate not the composition , but the man . For may not this paradox pass into a maxim ? viz . “ The less we copy the renowned ancients , we shall resemble them the more . " But possibly you may reply , that you ...
... Nature : imitate ; but imitate not the composition , but the man . For may not this paradox pass into a maxim ? viz . “ The less we copy the renowned ancients , we shall resemble them the more . " But possibly you may reply , that you ...
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... natural on such occasion , are therefore not admissible in the theatric art . Many of these allowed deviations from nature arise from the necessity which there is , that everything should be raised and enlarged beyond its natural state ...
... natural on such occasion , are therefore not admissible in the theatric art . Many of these allowed deviations from nature arise from the necessity which there is , that everything should be raised and enlarged beyond its natural state ...
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from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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