Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost : from The Spectator, 31 December 1711-3 May 1712Constable, 1868 - 152 |
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... Fable is unhappy , its hero unsuccessful , and it has too many digreffions . The Allegorical perfons in the Characters . The Sentiments fometimes degenerate into puns ; have too frequent allufions to heathen fables as true ; and very ...
... Fable is unhappy , its hero unsuccessful , and it has too many digreffions . The Allegorical perfons in the Characters . The Sentiments fometimes degenerate into puns ; have too frequent allufions to heathen fables as true ; and very ...
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... Fable greater than that of the Iliad or Eneid , and therefore an Heathen could not form a higher Notion of a Poem than one of that kind , which they call an Heroic . Whether Milton's is not of a fublimer Nature I will not prefume to ...
... Fable greater than that of the Iliad or Eneid , and therefore an Heathen could not form a higher Notion of a Poem than one of that kind , which they call an Heroic . Whether Milton's is not of a fublimer Nature I will not prefume to ...
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... Fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the Action which it relates . is more or lefs fo . This Action fhould have three Qualifications in it . First , It should be but one Action . Secondly , It fhould be an entire Action ...
... Fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the Action which it relates . is more or lefs fo . This Action fhould have three Qualifications in it . First , It should be but one Action . Secondly , It fhould be an entire Action ...
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... Fable , tho ' at the fame time that great Critick and Philofopher endeavours to palliate this Imperfection in the Greek Poet , by imputing it in fome Measure to the very Nature of an Epic Poem . Some have been of Opinion , that the ...
... Fable , tho ' at the fame time that great Critick and Philofopher endeavours to palliate this Imperfection in the Greek Poet , by imputing it in fome Measure to the very Nature of an Epic Poem . Some have been of Opinion , that the ...
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... Fable , and [ secondly ] the Man- ners , or , as we generally call them in English , the Fable and the Characters . Homer has excelled all the Heroic Poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his Characters . Every God ...
... Fable , and [ secondly ] the Man- ners , or , as we generally call them in English , the Fable and the Characters . Homer has excelled all the Heroic Poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his Characters . Every God ...
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Action Adam Adam and Eve Æneas Æneid Allegory alſo Angels appear Ariftotle aſtoniſhing Author Battel beautiful becauſe Characters Circumſtances Converſation Creation Criticiſm Criticks deſcribed Deſcription Deſign Difcourfe diſcover Divine Earth Eneid Epic Poem Epic Poetry Epiſode Expreffion Fable fame fecond feems felf feveral fhall fhew fhort firft Firſt Book firſt Parents fome fuch fufficient fuitable give greateſt Greatneſs Heaven Hell Heroic Poem himſelf Hiſtory Homer Iliad Imagination Infernal Inftances juſt laſt likewiſe Majefty Mankind Maſter meaſure Meffiah Milton Mind moſt muſt Nature noble obferved occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paper Paradife Loft particular Paſſage Perfons pleaſed Pleaſure Poet Poetical Poetry preſent racters raiſed Reader Reaſon repreſented rifes riſes ſame Satan ſee ſelf Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhort ſhould ſome ſpeak SPECTATOR Speech Spirit ſtill Sublime ſuch take notice thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe Thoughts tion uſe Verſe Virgil Viſion wherein whole Poem