Aristotle Poetics 26.14

Thomas Twining (Translator)

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The Iliad, for example, and the Odyssey contain many such subordinate parts, each of which has a certain magnitude, and unity, of its own: yet is the construction of those Poems as perfect, and as nearly approaching to the imitation of a single action, as possible.

Poetics. Aristotle. Thomas Twining (Translator). London, UK. 1789.

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Poetics (Thomas Twining, 1789) (OCR draft) (English) (Thomas Twining's English translation of Aristotle's Poetics, published in 1789 and aligned to the Kassel reference passage sequence.)

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The Poetic of Aristotle (Henry James Pye, revised 1792) (OCR draft) Experimental (Henry James Pye's revised 1792 English translation, corrected against the 1788 first edition, aligned to the Kassel reference edition, and supplied with a selective apparatus of substantive 1788 readings.) — 26.14 focus
Even the Iliad and Odyssey contain many parts, each of which has in itself a 1 2 3
The Poetic of Aristotle (Theodore Alois Buckley) (OCR draft) Experimental (Theodore Alois Buckley's English translation, first published in 1850 and represented from the Henry G. Bohn 1857 printing; corrected against a second OCR and aligned to the Kassel reference passage sequence.) — 26.14 focus
Thus, the Iliad and Odyssey contain many such parts, which of themselves possess magnitude, though these poems are composed, as much as possible, in the most excellent 1 2 manner, and are most eminently the imitation of one action.
La poëtique d'Aristote (André Dacier, 1692) (OCR draft) Experimental (André Dacier's French translation of Aristotle's Poetics, published in 1692.) — 26.14 focus
D'un autre côté ſi ce même Poëte mêloit pluſieurs fables dans ſon ſujet, c'est-à-dire, s'il faiſoit une imitation qui fût compoſée de pluſieurs actions & de pluſieurs incidens, elle ne ſeroit plus dans cette unité parfaite, non plus que l'Iliade & l'Odyſſée qui ont pluſieurs parties de cette nature, qui ont chacune leur grandeur, quoyque d'ailleurs ces deux Poëmes ſoient auſſi parfaits qu'ils puiſſent être, & qu'ils n'imitent l'un & l'autre, autant que cela eſt poſſible, qu'une ſeule action.