Excerpt from Translation From the Italian of Forteguerri of the First Canto of Ricciardetto: With an Introduction Concerning the Principal Romantic, Burlesque, and Mock-Heroic Poets
Respects inconvenient in matters of Literature. Perhaps, in that case, as in the others, their best and safest use is to assist arrangement, and serve as a sort of index to the different ideas which are treasured up in the memory, and become objects of our contemplation. As in the natural world it is found very difficult to fix the exact lines of demarcation even between the three great king doms of Animal, Vegetable, and Fossil, or Mineral, and still more so, to draw the evanescent strokes which divide the different orders, classes, genera, and species in those several kingdoms, whatever system of nomenclature may have been adopted, so it has happened in things intellectual for ex ample, in laying down accurate limits even be tween prose and poetry, but yet more in classify ing in a satisfactory manner by subdivisions, the different sorts of composition which are to be considered as belonging to the one or the other of those several provinces of literature.
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