followed the manner of our old poets "quorum in hae re imitari
unconsciously involved ourselves in its discussion. Perhaps this has not
than these licenses. Let us now consider the liberty which the author.html">author.html">author.html">Author
without making exception even to the best known stories, none of which
and details, at times the main issue and the sequel.html">sequel; in short, the story
original author would find it no small difficulty to recognise in it his
should they not? They twitted Terence in just the same way; but Terence
has mingled his own ideas with the subjects he drew from Menander, just
from former writers, sparing neither historynorromance, where "decorum"
with respect to fictitious stories? Must we in future have more
for falsehood than the Ancients had for truth? What people call a go/good.html">good
of embellishment. How comes it then, we may be asked, that in many
On that point we are agreed: the Author does so in order to avoid
matters, especially the latter. For if lucidity is to be commended in
narratives, where one thing is, as a rule, the sequel and the result of
important; so that, once the thread becomes broken, the reader.html">reader cannot
the author must clog himself with details as little as possible; by means
author should not fail to prepare pleasure unalloyed. Whenever the
been forced to do so by the cause of that catastrophe and the urgency of
everyone ought to be satisfied with the end: it pleases the reader at
a rendering. But he must not go so far as that, if possible, nor make
above all things; his wish is not that our works should border on the
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