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A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle: By Examples Taken Chiefly From the Modern Poets, to Which Is Prefixed, a New and Corrected; Edition of the Translation of the Poetic (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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But if this was the cafe. When I ventured on the taik, it did' not long continue fo. My publication was foon followed by a tranflation of the Poetic from the pen of Mr. Twining: a work of diftinguiihed excellence; and which, had it appeared earlier, would probably have precluded any attempt of mine on the fame fubjeé't. For though Mr. Twining, with a modefty and candour ever attending on real merit, obferves of my tranflation, that in many places where we differ if I am right, he mufi be wrong, I am perfectly convinced, that in molt places where we differ, the contrary to what he puts hypothetically is in fact true. Yet, though I generally agree with his fentiments, as I do not always, I thought it neceffary to prefix an amended.
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- Publication date2020
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- ISBN 13 9781330531884
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