History of Roman Literature: From It's Earliest Period to the Augustan Age ... 1
History of Roman Literature: From It's Earliest Period to the Augustan Age ... 1
John Colin Dunlop
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The great object of poetry (accordipg to a trite remark), is to afford pleasure ; but philosophic poetry affords less pleasure than epic, descriptive, or dramatic The versifiar of phi- losophic subjects is in danger of producing a work neither interesting enough for the admirers of sen- timent and imagination, nor sufficiently profound &r philosophers. He will sometimes soar into re- gions where many of his readers are unable to fel- low him, and, at other times, he will lose the su£- frage of ...a few, by interweaving fictions amid the se- vere and simple truth. It is the business of the philosopher to analyie the objects of nature. He must pay least attention to those which cHiefly affect the sense and imagi- nation, while he minutely considers others, which, though less striking, are more useful for classifica- tion, and the chief purposes he has in view. The poet, on the other hand, avoiding dry and abstract definitions, rather combines than analyzes, and dwells more on the sensible phenomena of nature, than her mysterious and scientific workings* 'Thus what the botanist oonsideis is the number of ^a^ mina, and their situatipn in 9, flower, while itie LUCBETIUS.
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