The Spectator. ...S. Buckley; and J. Tonson, 1712 |
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Strana 9
who live in the later Ages of the World , to make Observations in Criticifm , Morality , or in any Art or Science , which have not been touched upon by others . We have little elfe left us , but to reprefent the common Sense of Mankind ...
who live in the later Ages of the World , to make Observations in Criticifm , Morality , or in any Art or Science , which have not been touched upon by others . We have little elfe left us , but to reprefent the common Sense of Mankind ...
Strana 25
... observe , that our Admiration of a famous Man leffens upon our nearer Acquaintance with him ; and that we seldom hear ... observed , the fame Temper of Mind which enclines us to a Defire of Fame , naturally betrays us into fuch Slips and ...
... observe , that our Admiration of a famous Man leffens upon our nearer Acquaintance with him ; and that we seldom hear ... observed , the fame Temper of Mind which enclines us to a Defire of Fame , naturally betrays us into fuch Slips and ...
Strana 43
... observe , as I ftrole about Town , there are great Enormities committed with regard to this Particular . You fhall fometimes fee a Man begin the Offer of a Salutation , and observe a forbidding Air , or escaping Eye , in the Perfon he ...
... observe , as I ftrole about Town , there are great Enormities committed with regard to this Particular . You fhall fometimes fee a Man begin the Offer of a Salutation , and observe a forbidding Air , or escaping Eye , in the Perfon he ...
Strana 66
... observe the many Misunderstandings which are created by the Malice and Infinuation of the meanest ' Servants between People thus related , how neceffary will it appear that it were inculcated , that Men would be upon their Guard to fup ...
... observe the many Misunderstandings which are created by the Malice and Infinuation of the meanest ' Servants between People thus related , how neceffary will it appear that it were inculcated , that Men would be upon their Guard to fup ...
Strana 77
... Observation is fo very notorious , that when in ordinary Difcourfe we say a Man has a fine Head , a long Head , or a good Head , we express our felves metaphorically , and speak in relation to his Underftanding ; whereas when we fay of ...
... Observation is fo very notorious , that when in ordinary Difcourfe we say a Man has a fine Head , a long Head , or a good Head , we express our felves metaphorically , and speak in relation to his Underftanding ; whereas when we fay of ...
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Action Æneid Affembly againſt agreeable alfo Anſwer Beauty becauſe Behaviour beſt Buſineſs Cafe Character Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation Criticks defcribed Defcription Defign Defire Difcourfe diſcover Drefs Enville Fable faid fame feems felf felves fent feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend ftill fuch fufficient give greateſt Happineſs herſelf himſelf Homer Honour Houfe Houſe humble Servant Iliad juft Kind Lady laft leaft lefs Letter Loft look Love Mafter Mankind Manner Marriage Meaſure Milton Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary Number obferved Occafion Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poem Poet poffibly prefent publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon reprefented ſelf Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves ther theſe Thing thofe thoſe Thoughts tion underſtand uſed Virgil Virtue whofe Woman World young
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Strana 381 - ... 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 196 - Aristotle is what agrees with the genius of the Greek language more than with that of any other tongue, and is therefore more used by Homer than by any other poet.
Strana 159 - ... carefully to be avoided. The first are such as are affected and unnatural ; the second such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : he has none of those trifling...
Strana 12 - I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world, I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought, which many young women of quality have entertained, to the hazard of their characters, and the certain misfortune of their lives. The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at, and the answer to it, the temper of mind in a contrary character.
Strana 194 - It is not therefore sufficient that the language of an epic poem be perspicuous, unless it be also sublime. To this end, it ought to deviate from the common forms and ordinary phrases of speech.
Strana 261 - Paper to shew, that this kind of Implex Fable, wherein the Event is unhappy, is more apt to affect an Audience than that of the first kind...
Strana 87 - THERE is nothing in nature so irksome as general discourses, especially when they turn chiefly upon words. For this reason, I shall wave the discussion of that point which was started some years since, whether Milton's Paradise Lost may be called an heroic poem? Those who will not give it that title may call it, if they please, a divine poem. It will be sufficient to its perfection, if it has in it all the beauties of the...
Strana 232 - Apollo, who received them very graciously, and resolved to make the author a suitable return for the trouble he had been at in collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just threshed out of the sheaf.
Strana 221 - 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 93 - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.