and
Æneid
the Space of Time, which is taken up by the Action of each of those Poems; but as a great Part of
Milton's
Story was transacted in Regions that lie out of the Reach of the Sun and the Sphere of Day, it is impossible to gratify the Reader with such a Calculation, which indeed would be more curious than instructive; none of the Criticks, either Ancient or Modern, having laid down Rules to circumscribe the Action of an Epic Poem with any determin'd Number of Years, Days or Hours.
This Piece of Criticism on
Milton's Paradise Lost
shall be carried on in the following
Saturdays
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