The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Page 151
... several of his Precepts in the very Precepts themfelves . I fhall produce two or three Inftances of this Kind . Speaking of the infipid Smoothnefs which fome Readers are fo much in Love with , he has the following Verses . Thefe Equal ...
... several of his Precepts in the very Precepts themfelves . I fhall produce two or three Inftances of this Kind . Speaking of the infipid Smoothnefs which fome Readers are fo much in Love with , he has the following Verses . Thefe Equal ...
Page 152
... several of them which have escaped the Observation of others . I cannot conclude this Paper without taking Notice that we have three Poems in our Tongue , which are of the fame Nature , and each of them a Master - piece in its Kind ...
... several of them which have escaped the Observation of others . I cannot conclude this Paper without taking Notice that we have three Poems in our Tongue , which are of the fame Nature , and each of them a Master - piece in its Kind ...
Page 172
... several of them too much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book , where speaking of is 172 The SPECTATOR . No. 297 . FROM what has been here observed it appears ...
... several of them too much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book , where speaking of is 172 The SPECTATOR . No. 297 . FROM what has been here observed it appears ...
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... several of my Correfpondents have im- portuned me to confider that Subject , and fettle the Point of Decorum in that Particular . I do not pretend to be the best Courtier in the World , but I have often on publick Occafions thought it a ...
... several of my Correfpondents have im- portuned me to confider that Subject , and fettle the Point of Decorum in that Particular . I do not pretend to be the best Courtier in the World , but I have often on publick Occafions thought it a ...
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... Several that are in this Refpect unequally yoked , and uneafy for Life , with a Perfon of a particular Cha- racter , might have been pleased and happy with a Per- fon of a contrary one , notwithstanding they are both perhaps equally ...
... Several that are in this Refpect unequally yoked , and uneafy for Life , with a Perfon of a particular Cha- racter , might have been pleased and happy with a Per- fon of a contrary one , notwithstanding they are both perhaps equally ...
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Page 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Page 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Page 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.