Excerpt from Poetics, or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry, Vol. 1 An ancient Greek philosopher compared the whole Of human life to the letter upsilon, which answers to our-y. The earlier part he represented by the straight line, before its declining to the right hand or to the left. This was the course of simple innocence, and unembarrassed ease. But he supposed there was a period, when the mind took a turn, and that, according as the direction was then made, would be the bias, which prompted the course, and ...
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Excerpt from Poetics, or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry, Vol. 1 An ancient Greek philosopher compared the whole Of human life to the letter upsilon, which answers to our-y. The earlier part he represented by the straight line, before its declining to the right hand or to the left. This was the course of simple innocence, and unembarrassed ease. But he supposed there was a period, when the mind took a turn, and that, according as the direction was then made, would be the bias, which prompted the course, and which de termined the character, of the future man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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