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Page 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 ...
Page 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 ...
Page 436
... action , and the reasonable- ness of the plan . Every critical reader must remark , that Addison has , with a scrupulosity almost unexampled on the English stage , confined himself in time to a single day , and in place to rigorous ...
... action , and the reasonable- ness of the plan . Every critical reader must remark , that Addison has , with a scrupulosity almost unexampled on the English stage , confined himself in time to a single day , and in place to rigorous ...
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