The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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الصفحة 140
... Book . ONE cannot indeed without Offence , to your self , observe , that you excel the rest of Man- kind in the leaft , as well as the greatest Endowments . Nor were it it a Circumstance to be mention- ed , if the The Dedication .
... Book . ONE cannot indeed without Offence , to your self , observe , that you excel the rest of Man- kind in the leaft , as well as the greatest Endowments . Nor were it it a Circumstance to be mention- ed , if the The Dedication .
الصفحة 156
... Books written and transmitted to Pofterity , Nations conquered and civilized : Now fince the proper and genuine Motives to thefe and the like great Actions , would only influence virtuous Minds ; there would be but small Improvements in ...
... Books written and transmitted to Pofterity , Nations conquered and civilized : Now fince the proper and genuine Motives to thefe and the like great Actions , would only influence virtuous Minds ; there would be but small Improvements in ...
الصفحة 166
... Book it's legible ; which Quality the Greek wants : And fince the Introduction of Opera's into this Nation , the Ladies are fo charmed with Sounds abstracted from their Ideas , that they a- ⚫dore and honour the Sound of Latin as it is ...
... Book it's legible ; which Quality the Greek wants : And fince the Introduction of Opera's into this Nation , the Ladies are fo charmed with Sounds abstracted from their Ideas , that they a- ⚫dore and honour the Sound of Latin as it is ...
الصفحة 170
... Book ; and likewife by the Vifion , wherein Adam at the clofe of the Poem fees his Offspring triumphing over his great Enemy , and himself reftored to a happier Para-- dife than that from which he fell . THERE is another Objection ...
... Book ; and likewife by the Vifion , wherein Adam at the clofe of the Poem fees his Offspring triumphing over his great Enemy , and himself reftored to a happier Para-- dife than that from which he fell . THERE is another Objection ...
الصفحة 171
... Book . Such Allegories rather favour of the Spirit of Spenfer and Ariofto , than of Homer and Virgil . In the Structure of his Poem he has likewife admitted of too many Digreffions . It is finely obferved by Arif- totle , that the ...
... Book . Such Allegories rather favour of the Spirit of Spenfer and Ariofto , than of Homer and Virgil . In the Structure of his Poem he has likewife admitted of too many Digreffions . It is finely obferved by Arif- totle , that the ...
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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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الصفحة 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
الصفحة 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
الصفحة 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.