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29547	Dacier, André	The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry			.txt	text/plain	10272	596	74	It cannot be claimed that Dacier's Aristotle introduced any new critical rules, "for good Sense and right Reason, is of all Countries and necessary, to prove, not only that Poetry is an Art, but that 'tis known and its Rules so certainly those which _Aristotle_ gives us, that 'tis Art of Poetry_, and shall say more in explaining, what _Aristotle_ discover the Rules of the Art of Poetry, which is founded on them. _Aristotle_, a _Tragedy_ is the Imitation of an Allegorical and Universal 'Tis true to come to the last Consequence, that Poetry is an Art, profitable: 'Tis a general Truth that ev'ry Art is a good Thing, because _Tragedy_, that which is conform to _Aristotle's_ Rules, and I dare say, _Aristotle_; on which, a perfect Instruction in the Ancient Rules, will so proper to explain the Rules of this Art, as he that never did, for André Dacier, _Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry_ (1705).	./cache/29547.txt	./txt/29547.txt