The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... common , but fuch as the Reader muft affent to , when he fees them explained with that Elegance and Perfpicuity in which they are delivered . As for those which are the moft known , and the moft received , they are placed in fo ...
... common , but fuch as the Reader muft affent to , when he fees them explained with that Elegance and Perfpicuity in which they are delivered . As for those which are the moft known , and the moft received , they are placed in fo ...
Page 154
... Common - Place Rallery " of every Thing that is fober , decent , and proper : Ma- trimony and the Clergy are the Topicks of People of ⚫ little Wit and no Understanding . I own to you I have ← learned of the Vicar's Wife all you tax me ...
... Common - Place Rallery " of every Thing that is fober , decent , and proper : Ma- trimony and the Clergy are the Topicks of People of ⚫ little Wit and no Understanding . I own to you I have ← learned of the Vicar's Wife all you tax me ...
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... common Principle of Action work- ing equally with all Men . And fuch a Principle is Ambi- tion or a Defire of Fame , by which great Endowments are not fuffered to lie idle and useless to the Publick , and many vicious Men over - reached ...
... common Principle of Action work- ing equally with all Men . And fuch a Principle is Ambi- tion or a Defire of Fame , by which great Endowments are not fuffered to lie idle and useless to the Publick , and many vicious Men over - reached ...
Page 158
... common Judgment andOpinion of Mankind ill found- ed ; for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by fo felfish a Motive , and to do that out of a Defire of Fame , which we could not be prompted ...
... common Judgment andOpinion of Mankind ill found- ed ; for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by fo felfish a Motive , and to do that out of a Defire of Fame , which we could not be prompted ...
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... common Reports of Fame , and in spreading abroad the Weakneffes of an exalted Character . They p''ifh their ill - natured Discoveries with a fecret Pride , and applaud themselves for the Singularity of their Judgment which has fearched ...
... common Reports of Fame , and in spreading abroad the Weakneffes of an exalted Character . They p''ifh their ill - natured Discoveries with a fecret Pride , and applaud themselves for the Singularity of their Judgment which has fearched ...
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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.