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... action . which it relates is more or less so . This action should have three qualifications in it . First , it should be but one action . Secondly , it should be an entire action ; and , Thirdly , it should be a great action To consider the ...
... action . which it relates is more or less so . This action should have three qualifications in it . First , it should be but one action . Secondly , it should be an entire action ; and , Thirdly , it should be a great action To consider the ...
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... action they follow them in the disposition of the poem . Milton , in imitation of these two great poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an infernal council plotting the fall of man , which is the action he proposed to celebrate ; and as ...
... action they follow them in the disposition of the poem . Milton , in imitation of these two great poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an infernal council plotting the fall of man , which is the action he proposed to celebrate ; and as ...
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... action . On the contrary , the poem which we have now under our consideration , hath no other episodes than such as naturally arise from the subject , and yet is filled with such a multitude of astonishing incidents , that it gives us ...
... action . On the contrary , the poem which we have now under our consideration , hath no other episodes than such as naturally arise from the subject , and yet is filled with such a multitude of astonishing incidents , that it gives us ...
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VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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