The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - English essays |
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Page 67
... 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 intire Action ; and , Thirdly , It fhould be a great Action . To confider 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 intire Action ; and , Thirdly , It fhould be a great Action . To confider the ...
Page 68
... Action they follow them in the Difpofition of the Poem . Milton , in imitation of these two great Poets , opens his Paradife Loft with an Infernal Council plotting the Fall of Man , which is the Action he propofed to ce- lebrate ; and ...
... Action they follow them in the Difpofition of the Poem . Milton , in imitation of these two great Poets , opens his Paradife Loft with an Infernal Council plotting the Fall of Man , which is the Action he propofed to ce- lebrate ; and ...
Page 69
... Action of an Epic Poem , is , that it should be an entire Action : An Action is entire when it is complete in all its Parts ; or , as Ariftotle defcribes it , when it confifts of a Beginning , a Middle , and an End . Nothing fhould go ...
... Action of an Epic Poem , is , that it should be an entire Action : An Action is entire when it is complete in all its Parts ; or , as Ariftotle defcribes it , when it confifts of a Beginning , a Middle , and an End . Nothing fhould go ...
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