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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 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 ...
Page 340
... passions moved within them : and if the general voice will carry it , Mr. Rymer's prejudice will take off his single testi- mony . ' This , being matter of fact , is reasonably to be estab- lished by this appeal ; as if one man says ...
... passions moved within them : and if the general voice will carry it , Mr. Rymer's prejudice will take off his single testi- mony . ' This , being matter of fact , is reasonably to be estab- lished by this appeal ; as if one man says ...
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