Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 125
... passions did not enter the world before the Fall , there is in the Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising ...
... passions did not enter the world before the Fall , there is in the Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising ...
Page 334
... passion which most predominates in our souls , and that there- fore the passions represented become insipid , unless they are conformable to the thoughts of the audience . But it is to be concluded that this passion works not now ...
... passion which most predominates in our souls , and that there- fore the passions represented become insipid , unless they are conformable to the thoughts of the audience . But it is to be concluded that this passion works not now ...
Page 339
... passions , in their turns , are to be set in a ferment : as joy , anger , love , fear , are to be used as the poet's commonplaces ; and a general concernment for the principal actors is to be raised , by making them appear such in their ...
... passions , in their turns , are to be set in a ferment : as joy , anger , love , fear , are to be used as the poet's commonplaces ; and a general concernment for the principal actors is to be raised , by making them appear such in their ...
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