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... poem is , according to ARISTOTLE'S division , either simple or implex . It is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it ; implex , when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good , or from good to bad . The ...
... poem is , according to ARISTOTLE'S division , either simple or implex . It is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it ; implex , when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good , or from good to bad . The ...
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... Poem . MILTON Seems to have been sensible of this imperfection in his fable , and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by several expedients ; particularly by the mortification which the great adversary of mankind meets with upon his ...
... Poem . MILTON Seems to have been sensible of this imperfection in his fable , and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by several expedients ; particularly by the mortification which the great adversary of mankind meets with upon his ...
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... poem than one of that kind , which they call an heroic . Whether 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 ...
... poem than one of that kind , which they call an heroic . Whether 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 ...
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... poems proceeds from the authors . MILTON has , in the general disposition of his fable , very finely observed this ... Poem . If the Poet , even in the ordinary course of his narration , should speak as little as possible , he should ...
... poems proceeds from the authors . MILTON has , in the general disposition of his fable , very finely observed this ... Poem . If the Poet , even in the ordinary course of his narration , should speak as little as possible , he should ...
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... poem , are liable to the same exception , though I must confess there is so great a beauty in these very digressions , that I could not wish them out of his poem . I have , in a former paper , spoken of the Characters of MILTON's ...
... poem , are liable to the same exception , though I must confess there is so great a beauty in these very digressions , that I could not wish them out of his poem . I have , in a former paper , spoken of the Characters of MILTON's ...
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