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Wherefore we should give our
language a “foreign1 air”; for men admire
what is remote, and that which excites admiration is pleasant. In poetry many
things conduce to this and there it is appropriate; for the subjects and persons
spoken of are more out of the common. But in prose such methods are appropriate
in much fewer instances, for the subject is less elevated; and even in poetry,
if fine language were used by a slave or a very young man, or about quite
unimportant matters, it would be hardly becoming; for even here due proportion
consists in contraction and amplification as the subject requires.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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