The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Strana 158
... Regard to our good or ill 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 ...
... Regard to our good or ill 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 ...
Strana 184
... Regard and • Tenderness she has often expreffed for me gave me Rea- fon to flatter my felf to think . I was . Sir , this is cer- tainly a great Fault , and I affure you a very common · ↑ 6 one ; THUS We fee how many dark and intricate ...
... Regard and • Tenderness she has often expreffed for me gave me Rea- fon to flatter my felf to think . I was . Sir , this is cer- tainly a great Fault , and I affure you a very common · ↑ 6 one ; THUS We fee how many dark and intricate ...
Strana 19
... Regard for it . How often is the ambitious Man caft down and disappointed , if he receives no Praife where he expected it ? Nay how often is he mortified with the very Praifes he receives , if they do not rife fo high as he thinks they ...
... Regard for it . How often is the ambitious Man caft down and disappointed , if he receives no Praife where he expected it ? Nay how often is he mortified with the very Praifes he receives , if they do not rife fo high as he thinks they ...
Strana 26
... Speculations on the Miftakes which the Town run into with Regard to their Pleasure of this Kind ; and believing your Method of judging is , that 6 ⚫that you confider Mufick only valuable , as it 26 No.258 : The SPECTATOR .
... Speculations on the Miftakes which the Town run into with Regard to their Pleasure of this Kind ; and believing your Method of judging is , that 6 ⚫that you confider Mufick only valuable , as it 26 No.258 : The SPECTATOR .
Strana 27
... Regard to our obliging Pains , we ' are all equally set aside in the prefent Opera . Our Ap- plication therefore to you is only to infert this Letter in yourPapers , that the Town may know we have all Three joined together to make ...
... Regard to our obliging Pains , we ' are all equally set aside in the prefent Opera . Our Ap- plication therefore to you is only to infert this Letter in yourPapers , that the Town may know we have all Three joined together to make ...
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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.