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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets; Addison. Blackmore. Sheffield Volume 5 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1781 edition. Excerpt: ...upon his refufal, and at a time " when Cato was fcarce out of fighr, " and perhaps not out of hearing; at " leaft, fome of his guards or domef-" ticks muft neceffarily be fuppofed to " be within hearing; is a thing that is " fo far from being probable, that it is " hardly poffible. " Sempronius, in the fecond Act, " comes back once more in the fame " morning to the governor's hall, to. " carry on the confpiracy with Syphax "againft. ' againft the governor, his country, and " his family: which is fo ftupid, that it-is below the wifdom of the O--'s, " the Mac's, and the Teague's; even " Euftace Commins himfelf would ne-" ver have gone to Juflice-hall, to have " confpired againft the government. If " officers at Portfmouth fhould lay their " heads together, in order to the carry-"ing off J--G--'s niece or daughter, " would they meet in J.--G--'s hall, " to carry on that confpiracy? There would be no neceffity for their meet-" ing there, at leaft till they came-to "the execution of their plot, becaufe " there would be other places to meet " in. There would be no probability "that they fhould meet there, becaufe " there " there would be places more private " and more commodious. Now there K ought to be nothing in a tragical t action but what is neceffary or pro-" bable.-" But treafon is not the only thing " that is carried on in this hall: that " and love, and philofophy, take their " turns in it, without any manner of " neceffity or probability, occafioned by " the aclion, as duly and as regularly, " without interrupring one another, as " if there were a triple league between " them, and a mutual agreement that " each fhould give place to and make " way for the other, in a due and or-derly fucceffion. "We " We come now to the third Adt. " Sempronius,...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1781 edition. Excerpt: ...upon his refufal, and at a time " when Cato was fcarce out of fighr, " and perhaps not out of hearing; at " leaft, fome of his guards or domef-" ticks muft neceffarily be fuppofed to " be within hearing; is a thing that is " fo far from being probable, that it is " hardly poffible. " Sempronius, in the fecond Act, " comes back once more in the fame " morning to the governor's hall, to. " carry on the confpiracy with Syphax "againft. ' againft the governor, his country, and " his family: which is fo ftupid, that it-is below the wifdom of the O--'s, " the Mac's, and the Teague's; even " Euftace Commins himfelf would ne-" ver have gone to Juflice-hall, to have " confpired againft the government. If " officers at Portfmouth fhould lay their " heads together, in order to the carry-"ing off J--G--'s niece or daughter, " would they meet in J.--G--'s hall, " to carry on that confpiracy? There would be no neceffity for their meet-" ing there, at leaft till they came-to "the execution of their plot, becaufe " there would be other places to meet " in. There would be no probability "that they fhould meet there, becaufe " there " there would be places more private " and more commodious. Now there K ought to be nothing in a tragical t action but what is neceffary or pro-" bable.-" But treafon is not the only thing " that is carried on in this hall: that " and love, and philofophy, take their " turns in it, without any manner of " neceffity or probability, occafioned by " the aclion, as duly and as regularly, " without interrupring one another, as " if there were a triple league between " them, and a mutual agreement that " each fhould give place to and make " way for the other, in a due and or-derly fucceffion. "We " We come now to the third Adt. " Sempronius,...
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