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 1 I  |       respects—the medium, the objects, the manner or mode of imitation,
 2 I  |  imitate and represent various objects through the medium of color
 3 II |                   II~Since the objects of imitation are men in
 4 II |     distinct kind in imitating objects that are thus distinct.
 5 III|  manner in which each of these objects may be imitated. For the
 6 III|        being the same, and the objects the same, the poet may imitate
 7 III|      imitation—the medium, the objects, and the manner. So that
 8 IV |       the facts of experience. Objects which in themselves we view
 9 VI |      the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these
10 XI | trivial kind may in a sense be objects of recognition. Again, we
11 XXV| necessity imitate one of three objects—things as they were or are,
12 XXV|        perhaps reply, "But the objects are as they ought to be";