The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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الصفحة 150
... Imagination . If the Reader would see how the best of the Latin Criticks writ , he may find their Manner very beautifully described in the Characters of Horace , Petronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the Effay of ...
... Imagination . If the Reader would see how the best of the Latin Criticks writ , he may find their Manner very beautifully described in the Characters of Horace , Petronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the Effay of ...
الصفحة 157
... in their Praises of one , who fets too great a Value on them , left they should raise him too high in his own imagination , and and by confequence remove him to a greater Distance from No.255 . No. 255. The SPECTATOR . 13.
... in their Praises of one , who fets too great a Value on them , left they should raise him too high in his own imagination , and and by confequence remove him to a greater Distance from No.255 . No. 255. The SPECTATOR . 13.
الصفحة 171
... Imagination , and raise the Ideas of the Author . Tully tells us , mentioning his Dialogue of Old Age , in which Cato is the chief Speaker , that upon a Review of it he was agreeably impofed upon , and fancied that it was Cato , and not ...
... Imagination , and raise the Ideas of the Author . Tully tells us , mentioning his Dialogue of Old Age , in which Cato is the chief Speaker , that upon a Review of it he was agreeably impofed upon , and fancied that it was Cato , and not ...
الصفحة 20
... Imaginations fet upon it . So inconfiderable is the Satisfaction that Fame brings along with it , and fo great the Difquietudes to which it makes us liable . The Defire of it ftirs up very uneafy Motions in the Mind , and is rather ...
... Imaginations fet upon it . So inconfiderable is the Satisfaction that Fame brings along with it , and fo great the Difquietudes to which it makes us liable . The Defire of it ftirs up very uneafy Motions in the Mind , and is rather ...
الصفحة 70
... Imagination to his Difquiet ; but the Contempla- tion of a whole Affembly together , is a Defence against the Encroachment of Deare : At least to me , who have taken Pains to look at Beauty abstracted from the Con- fideration of its ...
... Imagination to his Difquiet ; but the Contempla- tion of a whole Affembly together , is a Defence against the Encroachment of Deare : At least to me , who have taken Pains to look at Beauty abstracted from the Con- fideration of its ...
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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.