those wonderful Performances, that there is an unquestionable Magnificence in every Part of
Paradise Lost
, and indeed a much greater than could have been formed upon any Pagan System.
But
Aristotle
, by the Greatness of the Action, does not only mean that it should be great in its Nature, but also in its Duration, or in other Words that it should have a due Length in it, as well as what we properly call Greatness. The
Measure of this kind of Magnitude, he explains by the following Similitude.