The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Ovid , we know that Bavius and Ma- vius were his declared Foes and Calumniators . IN our own Country a Man feldom fets up fora Poet , without attacking the Reputation of all his Brothers in the Art . The Ignorance of the Moderns , the ...
... Ovid , we know that Bavius and Ma- vius were his declared Foes and Calumniators . IN our own Country a Man feldom fets up fora Poet , without attacking the Reputation of all his Brothers in the Art . The Ignorance of the Moderns , the ...
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... Ovid . I Think myfelf highly obliged to the Publick for their kind Acceptance of a Paper which vifits them every Morning , and has in it none of those Seasonings that recommend so many of the Writings which are in Vogue among us . As ...
... Ovid . I Think myfelf highly obliged to the Publick for their kind Acceptance of a Paper which vifits them every Morning , and has in it none of those Seasonings that recommend so many of the Writings which are in Vogue among us . As ...
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... Ovid : in his Art of Love has given fome Precepts as to this Par- ticular , though I find they are different from those which prevail among the Moderns . He recommends a red ftriped Silk to the pale Complexion ; White to the : Brown ...
... Ovid : in his Art of Love has given fome Precepts as to this Par- ticular , though I find they are different from those which prevail among the Moderns . He recommends a red ftriped Silk to the pale Complexion ; White to the : Brown ...
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... Ovid . Was this Morning furprized with a great knocking at the Door , when my Landlady's Daughter came up to me , and told me , that there was a Man below de- fired to speak with me . Upon my asking her who it was , The she told me it ...
... Ovid . Was this Morning furprized with a great knocking at the Door , when my Landlady's Daughter came up to me , and told me , that there was a Man below de- fired to speak with me . Upon my asking her who it was , The she told me it ...
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... Ovid , none of the Epigrammatick Turns of Lu- can , none of thofe fwelling Sentiments which are so fre- quent in Statius and Claudian , none of thofe mixed Em- bellishments of Taffa . Every thing is just and natural . His Sentiments ...
... Ovid , none of the Epigrammatick Turns of Lu- can , none of thofe fwelling Sentiments which are so fre- quent in Statius and Claudian , none of thofe mixed Em- bellishments of Taffa . Every thing is just and natural . His Sentiments ...
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Էջ 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Էջ 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Էջ 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.