...treatise of Aristotle, and the unrivalled works of their poets, exclaim with a thousand tongues — " All depends upon the subject; choose a fitting action,...situations ; this done, everything else will follow." How different a way of thinking from this is ours ! We can hardly at the present day understand what...

...interesting manner by the art of the poet." And again, he emphatically reiterates the doctrine, that " all depends upon the subject. Choose a fitting action;...situations; this done, everything else will follow." If, it may be asked, the pleasure to be drawn from the perusal of poetry is to be derived solely from...

...interesting manner by the art of the poet." And again, he emphatically rekerates the doctrine, that " all depends upon the subject. Choose a fitting action ; penetrate yourself with ARNOLD'S THEORY. 341 the feeling of its situations ; this done, everything else will follow." If, it...

...treatise of Aristotle, and the unrivalled works of their poets, exclaim with a thousand tongues — "All depends upon the subject; choose a fitting action,...feeling of its situations ; this done, everything else Trill follow." How different a way of thinking from this is ours! We can hardly at the present day...

...a thousand tongues — "All depends upon the subject ; choose a fitting action, penetrate PREFACE. yourself -with the feeling of its situations ; this done, everything else will follow." How different a way of thinking from this is ours ! "We can hardly at the present day understand what...

...treatise of Aristotle, and the unrivalled works of their poets, exclaim with a thousand tongues, — "All depends upon the subject: choose a fitting action,...situations; this done, everything else will follow." We can therefore plead Mr. Arnold's own authority, if we pass on from the consideration of the dress...

...treatise of Aristotle, and the unrivalled works of their poets, exclaim with a thousand tongues — 'All depends upon the subject ; choose a fitting action,...situations ; this done, everything else will follow.' But for all kinds of poetry alike there was one point on which they were rigidly exacting ; the adaptability...

...treatise of Aristotle, and the unrivalled works of their poets, exclaim with a thousand tongues — " All depends upon the subject ; choose a fitting action,...situations ; this done, everything else will follow." But for all kinds of poetry alike there was one point on which they were rigidly exacting : the adaptability...

...treatise of Aristotle, and the unrivalled works of their poets, exclaim with a thousand tongues—" All depends upon the subject; choose a fitting action,...situations ; this done, everything else will follow." But for all kinds of poetry alike there was one point on which they were rigidly exacting: the adaptability...

...treatise of Aristotle, and the unrivalled works of their poets, exclaim with a thousand tongues — ' All depends upon the subject ; choose a fitting action, penetrate yourself with the feeling ofits situations ; this done, everything else will follow.' But for all kinds of poetry alike there...