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Page 157
We have indeed in many of our best Plays , an Under - plot , which often feems like another Action , but is not fo in reality ; for it has its fource from the principal Action , is dependant on it , and at last refolved into it again .
We have indeed in many of our best Plays , an Under - plot , which often feems like another Action , but is not fo in reality ; for it has its fource from the principal Action , is dependant on it , and at last refolved into it again .
Page 207
But Agamemnon's refolution feems to have been fhaken before this ; for in the ninth book he was for quitting the field , and behaved fo as to give umbrage to all the allies . The critics indeed endeavour to exculpate the general here ...
But Agamemnon's refolution feems to have been fhaken before this ; for in the ninth book he was for quitting the field , and behaved fo as to give umbrage to all the allies . The critics indeed endeavour to exculpate the general here ...
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The poem called Paradife Loft , in which Milton feems to have rivalled and excelled all other Epic poets , has for its fubject the fall of man , and is made up of that well known history in the facred text , intermixed with inventions ...
The poem called Paradife Loft , in which Milton feems to have rivalled and excelled all other Epic poets , has for its fubject the fall of man , and is made up of that well known history in the facred text , intermixed with inventions ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2 The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, John Newbery Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029955, 9780576029957 |
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