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Page 125
As human 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 ...
As human 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 ...
Page 334
But it is to be concluded that this passion works not now amongst the French so strongly as the other two did amongst the ... the operations from the writing are much stronger : for the raising of Shakespeare's passions is more from the ...
But it is to be concluded that this passion works not now amongst the French so strongly as the other two did amongst the ... the operations from the writing are much stronger : for the raising of Shakespeare's passions is more from the ...
Page 339
For all the 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 ...
For all the 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 ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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