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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. By Henry James Pye, Esq. London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. M.DCC.XCII.
COMMENTARY. Chap. I. Note I.
The Epopee and Tragedy, as also comedy and dithyrambics, [...]
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The Lives of the English Poets; and a Criticism of their Works. By Samuel Johnson. Vol. II. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Williams, Colles, Wilson, Lynch, Jenkin, Walker, Burnet, Hallhead, Flin, Exshaw, Beatty, and White. M,DCC,LXXXI.
SWIFT.
[...] In his academical studies [Jonathan Swift] was either not diligent or not happy. It must disappoint every reader’s expectation, [...]
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The Dunciad in Four Books, with [...]
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Essay on Musical [...]
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Martinus Scriblerus,
П Е Р І В А Θ О Υ Σ:
or, Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry.
[by Alexander Pope]
CHAP. V.
Of the true Genius [...]
From BAILEY:
A CRI’TICK [critique, F. critice, It. and Sp. criticus, L. of χριτιχος, Gr.] one skilled in criticism, a profound scholar, a nice censurer.
From JOHNSON:
CRI’TICK. n. s. [χριτιχος]
1. A man skilled in the art of judging of literature; a man able to distinguish the faults and beauties of writing.
This settles truer ideas in men’s minds of several things, [...]
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