The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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الصفحة 150
... admire . FOR this Reason I think there is nothing in the World fo tiresome as the Works of those Criticks , who write in a pofitive dogmatick Way , without either Language , Genius or Imagination . If the Reader would see how the best ...
... admire . FOR this Reason I think there is nothing in the World fo tiresome as the Works of those Criticks , who write in a pofitive dogmatick Way , without either Language , Genius or Imagination . If the Reader would see how the best ...
الصفحة 151
... admired in an antient Poet . The Reader may obferve the following Lines in the fame View . A needless Alexandrine ends the Song , That like a wounded Snake , drags its flow Length along . And afterwards , ' Tis not enough no Harshness ...
... admired in an antient Poet . The Reader may obferve the following Lines in the fame View . A needless Alexandrine ends the Song , That like a wounded Snake , drags its flow Length along . And afterwards , ' Tis not enough no Harshness ...
الصفحة 157
... Admiration of the World , and to distinguish themselves from the rest of Mankind ? Providence for the most part fets us upon a Level , and obferves a kind of Proportion in its Difpenfa- tions towards us . If it renders us perfect in one ...
... Admiration of the World , and to distinguish themselves from the rest of Mankind ? Providence for the most part fets us upon a Level , and obferves a kind of Proportion in its Difpenfa- tions towards us . If it renders us perfect in one ...
الصفحة 167
... admired him ? Why , fays he , my Lodgings are oppofite to hers , and she is continually at her Window either at Work , Reading , taking Snuff , or putting herself in fome toying Pofture on Purpose to draw my Eyes that Way . The ...
... admired him ? Why , fays he , my Lodgings are oppofite to hers , and she is continually at her Window either at Work , Reading , taking Snuff , or putting herself in fome toying Pofture on Purpose to draw my Eyes that Way . The ...
الصفحة 172
... Admiration , that the longest Reflection in the Æ- meid is in that Paffage of the Tenth Book , where Turnus ‹ is reprefented as dreffing himself in the Spoils of Pallas , whom he had flain . Virgil here lets his Fable stand still for ...
... Admiration , that the longest Reflection in the Æ- meid is in that Paffage of the Tenth Book , where Turnus ‹ is reprefented as dreffing himself in the Spoils of Pallas , whom he had flain . Virgil here lets his Fable stand still for ...
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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.