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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy

Chapter XXXIII: Book III: provides the dull-witted versifier with store of clichés of

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the same kind, but a little more elaborate; there being, for instance, dozens of phrases for embracing. And IV. is a sort of common place-book of short copies of verses on everything in Heaven and Earth.

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Footnote 470:

_De Re Poetica_, Lib. iv. (Antwerp, 1565).

Footnote 471:

Ibid., Lib. vii. (Leipsic, 1595).

Footnote 472:

_V. sup._, p. 107.

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Version B (which is dated long after Fabricius’ death in 1571) is not only much enlarged but differently arranged. [Sidenote: _Version B._]

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