describes it, when it consists of a Beginning, a Middle, and an End. Nothing should go before it, be intermixed with it, or follow after it, that is not related to it. As on the contrary, no single Step should be omitted in that just and regular Progress which it must be supposed to take from its Original to its Consummation. Thus we see the Anger of
Achilles
in its Birth, its Continuance and Effects; and
Æneas's
Settlement in
Italy
, carried on thro' all the Oppositions in his Way to it both by Sea and Land. The Action in
Milton
excels (I think) both the former in this Particular; we see it contrived in Hell, executed upon Earth, and punished by Heaven.