The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Page 157
... Some Men cannot difcern between a noble and a mean Action . Others are apt to attribute them to fome false End or In- tention ; and others purposely mifrepresent or put a wrong Interpretation on them . But the more to enforce this ...
... Some Men cannot difcern between a noble and a mean Action . Others are apt to attribute them to fome false End or In- tention ; and others purposely mifrepresent or put a wrong Interpretation on them . But the more to enforce this ...
Page 168
... Some , who pretend to be my Friends , tell me they do it in Derifion , and would advise me to leave it off , withal that I make my • felf ridiculous . I don't know what to do in this Affair , 6 • but · but am refolved not to give over ...
... Some , who pretend to be my Friends , tell me they do it in Derifion , and would advise me to leave it off , withal that I make my • felf ridiculous . I don't know what to do in this Affair , 6 • but · but am refolved not to give over ...
Page 170
... some emi- nent Pitch of Honour and Profperity , into Mifery and Difgrace . Thus we fee Adam and Eve finking from a State of Innocence and Happiness , into the most abject Condition of Sin and Sorrow . THE moft taking Tragedies among the ...
... some emi- nent Pitch of Honour and Profperity , into Mifery and Difgrace . Thus we fee Adam and Eve finking from a State of Innocence and Happiness , into the most abject Condition of Sin and Sorrow . THE moft taking Tragedies among the ...
Page 183
... some fo weak as to be im- pofed upon by fine Things and falfe Addreffes . I can't perfuade myfelf that your Defign is to debar the Sexes the Benefit of each other's Converfation within the • Rules of Honour ; nor will you , I dare fay ...
... some fo weak as to be im- pofed upon by fine Things and falfe Addreffes . I can't perfuade myfelf that your Defign is to debar the Sexes the Benefit of each other's Converfation within the • Rules of Honour ; nor will you , I dare fay ...
Page 184
... some private Reasons for it ; ⚫ and I'll leave it to you to determine on which Side a • Part is then acted . Some Women there are who are ar- rived at Years of Difcretion , I mean are got out of the • Hands of their Parents and ...
... some private Reasons for it ; ⚫ and I'll leave it to you to determine on which Side a • Part is then acted . Some Women there are who are ar- rived at Years of Difcretion , I mean are got out of the • Hands of their Parents and ...
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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.