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Page 239
The criticks hold it impossible , that an action of months or years can be possibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the spectator can suppose himself to sit in the theatre , while ambassadors go and return between distant ...
The criticks hold it impossible , that an action of months or years can be possibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the spectator can suppose himself to sit in the theatre , while ambassadors go and return between distant ...
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... drama as passes without intervention of time or change of place . ... and ought now to be exhibited with short pauses , interposed as often as the scene is changed , or any considerable time is required to pass .
... drama as passes without intervention of time or change of place . ... and ought now to be exhibited with short pauses , interposed as often as the scene is changed , or any considerable time is required to pass .
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See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years , Thy flowering Spring , thy Summer's ardent strength , 1030 Thy sober Autumn fading into age , And pale concluding Winter comes at last And shuts the scene .
See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years , Thy flowering Spring , thy Summer's ardent strength , 1030 Thy sober Autumn fading into age , And pale concluding Winter comes at last And shuts the scene .
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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