[Footnote 2:]

At the end of the third Book of the

Poetics

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'The diction should be most laboured in the idle parts of the poem; those in which neither manners nor sentiments prevail; for the manners and the sentiments are only obscured by too splendid a diction.'

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[Footnote 3:]

this great

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