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... example . To purge the passions by example is therefore the particular instruction which belongs to tragedy . Rapin , a judicious critic , has observed from Aristotle that pride and want of commiseration are the most predominant vices ...
... example . To purge the passions by example is therefore the particular instruction which belongs to tragedy . Rapin , a judicious critic , has observed from Aristotle that pride and want of commiseration are the most predominant vices ...
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... example of this tendency ? Well , but the very same tendency vitiates much of our criticism , much criticism of Shakespeare , for example , which , with all its cleverness and partial truth , still shows that the critic never passed ...
... example of this tendency ? Well , but the very same tendency vitiates much of our criticism , much criticism of Shakespeare , for example , which , with all its cleverness and partial truth , still shows that the critic never passed ...
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... example , if he had lived a century earlier , probably have told his tales , as Byron and Crabbe3 did : in verse ? Is it not just as correct to consider him the last of the great English romantic poets as one of the most original of ...
... example , if he had lived a century earlier , probably have told his tales , as Byron and Crabbe3 did : in verse ? Is it not just as correct to consider him the last of the great English romantic poets as one of the most original of ...
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