The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Strana 149
... Opinion , that neither Virgil nor Horace would have gained fo great a Reputation in the World , had they not been the Friends and Admirers of each other . Indeed all the great Writers of that Age , for whom fingly we have fo great an ...
... Opinion , that neither Virgil nor Horace would have gained fo great a Reputation in the World , had they not been the Friends and Admirers of each other . Indeed all the great Writers of that Age , for whom fingly we have fo great an ...
Strana 158
... Opinions of him , to our Reproaches or Commendations . As on the contrary , it is ufual for us , when we would take off from the Fame and Reputation of an Action , to ascribe it to Vain - Glory , and a Defire of Fame in the Actor . Nor ...
... Opinions of him , to our Reproaches or Commendations . As on the contrary , it is ufual for us , when we would take off from the Fame and Reputation of an Action , to ascribe it to Vain - Glory , and a Defire of Fame in the Actor . Nor ...
Strana 160
... his Reputation , and in fome Measure reduced to our own Rank , who had fo far raised himself above us in the Reports and Opinions of Mankind . THUS gentle Ufage ? It is the common Vice of Children 16 The SPECTATOR . No. 256 .
... his Reputation , and in fome Measure reduced to our own Rank , who had fo far raised himself above us in the Reports and Opinions of Mankind . THUS gentle Ufage ? It is the common Vice of Children 16 The SPECTATOR . No. 256 .
Strana 163
... Opinion upon a Sub- ' ject which you have not yet touched , and inform us • if there are any Precedents for this Ufage among our • Ancestors ; or whether you find any mention of Pin - mo- ney inGrotius , Puffendorf , or any other of the ...
... Opinion upon a Sub- ' ject which you have not yet touched , and inform us • if there are any Precedents for this Ufage among our • Ancestors ; or whether you find any mention of Pin - mo- ney inGrotius , Puffendorf , or any other of the ...
Strana 164
... Opinion , as unnatural as feparate Beds . A Mar- riage cannot be happy , where the Pleasures , Inclinations , and Interefts of both Parties are not the fame . There is no greater Incitement to Love in the Mind of Man , than the Senfe of ...
... Opinion , as unnatural as feparate Beds . A Mar- riage cannot be happy , where the Pleasures , Inclinations , and Interefts of both Parties are not the fame . There is no greater Incitement to Love in the Mind of Man , than the Senfe of ...
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Action admired Æneid againſt agreeable alfo anſwer Beauty becauſe befides Behaviour beſt Character Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation Criticks defcribed Defcription Defign Defire Difcourfe diſcover Drefs Fable faid fame fecond feems felf felves feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend ftill fuch fufficient give greateſt Happineſs herſelf himſelf Honour Houfe Houſe humble Servant Iliad infert itſelf juft Kind Lady laft laſt lefs likewife Loft look Love Mafter Mankind Manner Marriage Meaſure Milton Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature Number obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon Place pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poem Poet poffible prefent publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon Refpect reprefented Senfe Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves theſe Thing thofe thoſe Thoughts thouſand underſtand uſe Virgil Virtue whofe Woman World young
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Strana 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Strana 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Strana 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Strana 194 - Moses in those books from whence our author drew his subject, and to the Holy Spirit who is therein represented as operating after a particular manner in the first production of nature.
Strana 132 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Strana 201 - In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their similes so many short episodes ; to which you may add, if you please, that their metaphors are so many short similes.
Strana 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Strana 250 - Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination, freewill and grace, as also the great points of incarnation and redemption, (which naturally grow up in a poem that treats of the fall of man) with great energy of expression, and in a clearer and stronger light than I ever met with in any other writer.
Strana 197 - The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry, which rises in a great measure from its describing the places where they were worshipped, by those beautiful marks of rivers, so frequent among the ancient poets. The author had doubtless in this place Homer's catalogue of ships, and Virgil's list of warriors, in his view. The characters of Moloch and Belial...
Strana 198 - Lucian relates concerning this river, viz. that this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; •which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises.