Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 |
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Pagina 115
... action is not probable . A Masque , in those parts where supernatural interven- tion is admitted , must indeed be given up to all the freaks of imagination ; but , so far as the action is merely human , it ought to be reasonable , which ...
... action is not probable . A Masque , in those parts where supernatural interven- tion is admitted , must indeed be given up to all the freaks of imagination ; but , so far as the action is merely human , it ought to be reasonable , which ...
Pagina 121
... action could have been accomplished by any other means . Of episodes , I think there are only two , contained in Raphael's relation of the war in heaven , and Michael's prophetick account of the changes to happen in this world . Both ...
... action could have been accomplished by any other means . Of episodes , I think there are only two , contained in Raphael's relation of the war in heaven , and Michael's prophetick account of the changes to happen in this world . Both ...
Pagina 142
... action could not have been one ; there could only have been a succession of incidents , each of which might have happened without the rest , and which could not all co - operate to any single conclusion . The discontinuity of the action ...
... action could not have been one ; there could only have been a succession of incidents , each of which might have happened without the rest , and which could not all co - operate to any single conclusion . The discontinuity of the action ...
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Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton ... Samuel Johnson Fragmentweergave - 1952 |
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