verisimilar

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Who does not recall the great part played in literary history by the criticism of the verisimilar?

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Now, I am to perform all this, it seems, without making any thing verisimilar or agreeable!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Here Robortelli answers a possible objection to Aristotle's statement that poets deal only with what is possible and verisimilar.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias

Aesthetic truths for Baumgarten were those which did not seem altogether false or altogether true: in fact, the verisimilar.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Charming, but in no proper sense of the word natural or verisimilar.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver