The Spectator, Svazek 4J. Tonson, 1729 |
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Strana 16
... particular Kind of Beauty in the Num- bers ; but I may take an Occafion in a future Paper to fhew feveral of them which have efcaped the Obfervation of others . I cannot conclude this Paper without taking Notice that we have three Poems ...
... particular Kind of Beauty in the Num- bers ; but I may take an Occafion in a future Paper to fhew feveral of them which have efcaped the Obfervation of others . I cannot conclude this Paper without taking Notice that we have three Poems ...
Strana 28
... particular Order and Method . I have firft of all confidered the Reasons why Providence may have im- planted in our Mind fuch a Principle of Action . I have in the next Place fhewn from many Confiderations , first , that Fame is a Thing ...
... particular Order and Method . I have firft of all confidered the Reasons why Providence may have im- planted in our Mind fuch a Principle of Action . I have in the next Place fhewn from many Confiderations , first , that Fame is a Thing ...
Strana 38
... Particular , I do not pretend to be the best Courtier in the World , but I have often on publick Occasions thought it a very great Abfurdity in the Company ( during the Royal Pre- fence ) to exchange Salutations from all Parts of the ...
... Particular , I do not pretend to be the best Courtier in the World , but I have often on publick Occasions thought it a very great Abfurdity in the Company ( during the Royal Pre- fence ) to exchange Salutations from all Parts of the ...
Strana 44
... particular Chara- eter , might have been pleafed and happy with a Perfon of a contrary one , notwithstanding they are both perhaps equally virtuous and laudable in their Kind . BEFORE Marriage we cannot be too inquifitive and difcerning ...
... particular Chara- eter , might have been pleafed and happy with a Perfon of a contrary one , notwithstanding they are both perhaps equally virtuous and laudable in their Kind . BEFORE Marriage we cannot be too inquifitive and difcerning ...
Strana 45
... particular Perfons , Families , or Societies . THERE is not one of thefe above - mentioned Sub- jects that would not fell a very indifferent Paper , could I think of gratifying the Publick by fuch mean and bafe Methods , Methods . But ...
... particular Perfons , Families , or Societies . THERE is not one of thefe above - mentioned Sub- jects that would not fell a very indifferent Paper , could I think of gratifying the Publick by fuch mean and bafe Methods , Methods . But ...
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Strana 154 - English, a glowing bold expression, and to turn it into ridicule by a cold ill-natured criticism. A little wit is equally capable of exposing a beauty, and of aggravating a fault; and though such a treatment of an author naturally produces indignation in the mind of an understanding reader, it has however its effect among the generality of those whose hands it falls into; the rabble of mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at, with any mixture of wit, is ridiculous in...
Strana 15 - ... gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Strana 148 - The dervise told them he intended to take up his night's lodging in that caravansary. The guards let him know, in a very angry manner, that the house he was in was not a caravansary, but the king's palace. It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate, and smiling at the...
Strana 67 - ... for preserving of this unity of action they follow them in the disposition of the poem. Milton, in imitation of these two great poets, opens his Paradise Lost with an infernal council plotting the fall of man, which is the action he proposed to celebrate...
Strana 202 - 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.
Strana 112 - I shall show more at large in another paper ; though considering how all the poets of the age in which he writ were infected with this wrong way of thinking, he is rather to be admired that he did not give more into it, than that he did sometimes comply with the vicious taste which still prevails so much among modern writers.
Strana 148 - Tartary, being arrived at the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn or caravansary. Having looked about him for some time, he entered into a long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and spread his carpet, in order to repose himself upon it, after the manner of the eastern nations. He had not been long in this posture before he was discovered by some of the guards, who asked him what was his business in that place?
Strana 281 - In short, as the critics have remarked, that in those poems, wherein shepherds are actors, the thoughts ought always to take a tincture from the woods, fields, and rivers...
Strana 112 - I have before said, these are rather to be imputed to the simplicity of the age in which he lived, to which I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Strana 281 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...