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Page 13
... MILTON'S DEFECTS . I AFTER what I have said in my last Saturday's Paper , I shall enter on the subject of this without further preface , and remark the several defects which appear in the Fable , the Characters , the Sentiments , and ...
... MILTON'S DEFECTS . I AFTER what I have said in my last Saturday's Paper , I shall enter on the subject of this without further preface , and remark the several defects which appear in the Fable , the Characters , the Sentiments , and ...
Page 14
... MILTON Seems to have been sensible of this imperfection in his fable , and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by ... MILTON's fable , which is indeed almost the same with the former , though placed in a different light , namely , -That ...
... MILTON Seems to have been sensible of this imperfection in his fable , and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by ... MILTON's fable , which is indeed almost the same with the former , though placed in a different light , namely , -That ...
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... MILTON'S is not of a sublimer nature I will not presume to determine : it is sufficient that I shew there is in the Paradise Lost all the greatness of plan , regularity of design , and masterly beauties which we discover in HOMER and ...
... MILTON'S is not of a sublimer nature I will not presume to determine : it is sufficient that I shew there is in the Paradise Lost all the greatness of plan , regularity of design , and masterly beauties which we discover in HOMER and ...
Page 16
... MILTON has , in the general disposition of his fable , very finely observed this great rule ; insomuch that there is scarce a tenth part of it which comes from the Poet ; the rest is spoken either by ADAM or Eve , or by some good or ...
... MILTON has , in the general disposition of his fable , very finely observed this great rule ; insomuch that there is scarce a tenth part of it which comes from the Poet ; the rest is spoken either by ADAM or Eve , or by some good or ...
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... MILTON's Paradise Lost , and declared my opinion , as to the allegorical persons who are introduced in it . * If we look into the Sentiments , I think they are sometimes defective under the following heads ; first , as there are several ...
... MILTON's Paradise Lost , and declared my opinion , as to the allegorical persons who are introduced in it . * If we look into the Sentiments , I think they are sometimes defective under the following heads ; first , as there are several ...
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