The Spectator, Svazek 51793 |
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Strana 12
... reader , when he is doing this office , not to stand afore the fire . This will be a general good to our family , this cold weather . He will , I know , take it to be our common request when he comes to these words , pray , Sir , sit ...
... reader , when he is doing this office , not to stand afore the fire . This will be a general good to our family , this cold weather . He will , I know , take it to be our common request when he comes to these words , pray , Sir , sit ...
Strana 13
... reader will pardon me , if I alledge at the same time whatever may be said for the extenuation of such de- fects . The first imperfection which I shall observe in the Fable is , that the event of it is unhappy . The fable of every poem ...
... reader will pardon me , if I alledge at the same time whatever may be said for the extenuation of such de- fects . The first imperfection which I shall observe in the Fable is , that the event of it is unhappy . The fable of every poem ...
Strana 15
... reader is more awed , and elevated , when he hears NEAS or ACHILLES speak , than when VIRGIL or HOMER talk in their own persons . Besides , that assuming the character of an eminent man is apt to fire the imagination , and raise the ...
... reader is more awed , and elevated , when he hears NEAS or ACHILLES speak , than when VIRGIL or HOMER talk in their own persons . Besides , that assuming the character of an eminent man is apt to fire the imagination , and raise the ...
Strana 16
... reader's memory . LUCAN , who was an injudicious poet , lets drop his story very frequently for the sake of his unnecessary digressions , or his Diverticula , as SCALIGER calls them . If he gives is an account of the prodigies which ...
... reader's memory . LUCAN , who was an injudicious poet , lets drop his story very frequently for the sake of his unnecessary digressions , or his Diverticula , as SCALIGER calls them . If he gives is an account of the prodigies which ...
Strana 17
... reader will easily remark them in his perusal of the poem . A third fault in his Sentiments , is an unnecessary ostentation of learning , which likewise occurs very fre- quently . It is certain that both HOMER and VIRGIL were masters of ...
... reader will easily remark them in his perusal of the poem . A third fault in his Sentiments , is an unnecessary ostentation of learning , which likewise occurs very fre- quently . It is certain that both HOMER and VIRGIL were masters of ...
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