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  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    occasions. See PASSION, MUSIC, etc. Action, in poetry, is an event, either real or imaginary, which makes the subject of an epic or dramatic poem. See EPIC, TRAGEDY, etc. The action of a poem coincides with the fable thereof; it being the usual...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • EPIC Poemhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/EPIC-Poem

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    in the Complexion, Humour, or Manner of thinking of the Person (*René Le Bossu: "Traité du Poème Épique" (Treatise on the Epic Poem), Book 1, Chapter 1.); or as restrained or diverted, out of its proper course, by some Views, or Notices peculiar to him....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ACHILLEIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLEIS

    POEM. It only takes in his Infancy, the Poet being prevented from proceeding, by Death. The Achilleid is of the Heroic or Epic Kind; but extremely faulty in the Plan, or Fable. See FABLE, &c. 'Tis a Point controverted among the Critics, whether the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Alteration, Corruption, Putresaction, Generation, Degeneration, Transmutation, &c. Systems or Hypothecs hereof, Corpuscular, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Peripatetic, Cartesian, Newtonian, &c.---- Occult and Fictitious Qualities, Powers, and Operations,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
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