The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Svazky 7–8J. Crissy, 1841 |
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... poet has observed Aristotle's rule of lavishing all the ornaments of diction on the weak unactive parts of the fable , which are not supported by the beauty of sentiments and characters . Accordingly the а reader may observe , that the ...
... poet has observed Aristotle's rule of lavishing all the ornaments of diction on the weak unactive parts of the fable , which are not supported by the beauty of sentiments and characters . Accordingly the а reader may observe , that the ...
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... poet been very particular in it ; not only as it is the scene of the principal action , but as it is requisite to give us an idea of that happiness from which our first parents fell . The plan of it is wonderfully beautiful , and formed ...
... poet been very particular in it ; not only as it is the scene of the principal action , but as it is requisite to give us an idea of that happiness from which our first parents fell . The plan of it is wonderfully beautiful , and formed ...
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... poet has engaged this artificer of fraud . The thought of Satan's transformation into a cormorant , and placing himself on the tree of life , seems raised upon that passage in the Iliad , where two deities are described as perching on ...
... poet has engaged this artificer of fraud . The thought of Satan's transformation into a cormorant , and placing himself on the tree of life , seems raised upon that passage in the Iliad , where two deities are described as perching on ...
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... poets . But this I may reserve for a discourse by itself , because I would not break the thread of these speculations , that are designed for English readers , with such reflections as would be of no use but to the learned . I must ...
... poets . But this I may reserve for a discourse by itself , because I would not break the thread of these speculations , that are designed for English readers , with such reflections as would be of no use but to the learned . I must ...
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... poet's device to make him descend , as well in his return to the sun as in his coming from it , is a prettiness that might have been admired in a little fanciful poet , but seems below the genius of Milton . The description of the host ...
... poet's device to make him descend , as well in his return to the sun as in his coming from it , is a prettiness that might have been admired in a little fanciful poet , but seems below the genius of Milton . The description of the host ...
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