The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Strana 149
... themselves to the Reputation of their Fellow - Writers , they must en- deavour to fink it to their own Pitch , if they would still keep themselves upon a Level with them . THE greatest Wits that ever were produced in one Age lived ...
... themselves to the Reputation of their Fellow - Writers , they must en- deavour to fink it to their own Pitch , if they would still keep themselves upon a Level with them . THE greatest Wits that ever were produced in one Age lived ...
Strana 155
... themselves are irreparably ridi- culous , ridiculous in old Age . I am , · · 6 Madam , Your most humble Servant , Mary Home . Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , you OU have no Goodness in the World , and are not in Earnest in any Thing you fay that ...
... themselves are irreparably ridi- culous , ridiculous in old Age . I am , · · 6 Madam , Your most humble Servant , Mary Home . Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , you OU have no Goodness in the World , and are not in Earnest in any Thing you fay that ...
Strana 157
... themselves from the rest of Mankind ? Providence for the most part fets us upon a Level , and obferves a kind of Proportion in its Difpenfa- tions towards us . If it renders us perfect in one Accom- plishment , it generally leaves us ...
... themselves from the rest of Mankind ? Providence for the most part fets us upon a Level , and obferves a kind of Proportion in its Difpenfa- tions towards us . If it renders us perfect in one Accom- plishment , it generally leaves us ...
Strana 158
... and by confequence remove him to a greater Distance from themselves . BUT further , this Defire of Fame naturally betrays the ambitious Man into fuch Indecencies as are a leffen , ing to his Reputation . He is ftill afraid left any ...
... and by confequence remove him to a greater Distance from themselves . BUT further , this Defire of Fame naturally betrays the ambitious Man into fuch Indecencies as are a leffen , ing to his Reputation . He is ftill afraid left any ...
Strana 159
... themselves . The like Kind of Confideration often stirs up the Envy of fuch as were once his Superiors , who think it a Detraction from their Merit to see another get Ground upon them and overtake them in the Pursuits of Glory ; and ...
... themselves . The like Kind of Confideration often stirs up the Envy of fuch as were once his Superiors , who think it a Detraction from their Merit to see another get Ground upon them and overtake them in the Pursuits of Glory ; and ...
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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.