The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 157
... 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 . The Unity of Time is alfo to be obferved , for the reafon abovementioned ...
... 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 . The Unity of Time is alfo to be obferved , for the reafon abovementioned ...
Page 207
... 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 , and fuppofe it a repetition ...
... 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 , and fuppofe it a repetition ...
Page 318
... 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 and machinery of his own ; which are so finely ...
... 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 and machinery of his own ; which are so finely ...
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