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quite necessary principle. Whereas the philosopher teaches and
the historian gives examples of philosophical principle, only the
poet applies the whole matter to the correction of the human
will and the erection of the human spirit:
Now doth the peerless poet perform both: for
whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he
giveth a perfect picture of it in some one by whom he
presupposeth it was done; so as he coupleth the general
notion with the particular example. A perfect picture I say,
for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of
that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish
description: which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess
the sight of the soul so much as that other doth. (48)
A more unexpected translation into the new mode