in this Particular, and has Episodes which may be looked upon as Excrescencies rather than as Parts of the Action.
the contrary, the Poem, which we have now under our Consideration, hath no other Episodes than such as naturally arise from the Subject, and yet is filled with such a Multitude of astonishing
Incidents
, that it gives us at the same time a Pleasure of the greatest Variety, and of the greatest
Simplicity; uniform in its Nature, tho' diversified in the Execution.
I must observe also, that as
Virgil