The Spectator, Հատոր 4Tonson, 1738 |
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... Defcription in Homer's Odyffey , which none of the Criticks have taken notice of . It is where Sisyphus is reprefented lifting his Stone up the Hill , which is no fooner carried to the Top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the ...
... Defcription in Homer's Odyffey , which none of the Criticks have taken notice of . It is where Sisyphus is reprefented lifting his Stone up the Hill , which is no fooner carried to the Top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the ...
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... our English Comedies , a Defcription of a Fellow that affected knowing every Body , and for Want of Judgment in Time and Place , would bow and fmile in the Face of a Judge fitting in the Court in N ° 259 . The SPECTATOR . 37 ...
... our English Comedies , a Defcription of a Fellow that affected knowing every Body , and for Want of Judgment in Time and Place , would bow and fmile in the Face of a Judge fitting in the Court in N ° 259 . The SPECTATOR . 37 ...
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... Defcription of Satan , who is one of the principal Actors in this Poem , are wonderfully proper to give us a full Idea of him . His Pride , Envy and Revenge , Obftinacy , Defpair and Impe- nitence , are all of them very artfully ...
... Defcription of Satan , who is one of the principal Actors in this Poem , are wonderfully proper to give us a full Idea of him . His Pride , Envy and Revenge , Obftinacy , Defpair and Impe- nitence , are all of them very artfully ...
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... Defcription of the Pandemonium , are full of Beauties . THERE are feveral other Strokes in the first Book wonderfully poetical , and Inftances of that Sublime Ge- nius fo peculiar to the Author . Such is the Defcription : of Azazel's ...
... Defcription of the Pandemonium , are full of Beauties . THERE are feveral other Strokes in the first Book wonderfully poetical , and Inftances of that Sublime Ge- nius fo peculiar to the Author . Such is the Defcription : of Azazel's ...
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... Defcription of Hell are finely imagined ; as the four Rivers which dif- gorge themselves into the Sea of Fire , the Extreams of Cold and Heat , and the River of Oblivion . The mon ftrous Animals produced in that Infernal World are re ...
... Defcription of Hell are finely imagined ; as the four Rivers which dif- gorge themselves into the Sea of Fire , the Extreams of Cold and Heat , and the River of Oblivion . The mon ftrous Animals produced in that Infernal World are re ...
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Էջ 67 - Roman empire, has described the birth of its great rival, the Carthaginian commonwealth : Milton, with the like art in his poem on the fall of man, has related the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies.
Էջ 70 - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.
Էջ 134 - The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by common use. For this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages, have a great advantage over those which are written in languages that are now spoken. Were there any mean phrases or idioms in Virgil...
Էջ 205 - Being, he frequently confesses his omnipotence, that being the perfection he was forced to allow him, and the only consideration which could support his pride under the shame of his defeat. Nor...
Էջ 110 - ... other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them. This I thought fit to...
Էջ 235 - Death produces those monsters and hell-hounds which from time to time enter into their mother, and tear the bowels of her who gave them birth. These are the terrors of an evil conscience, and the proper fruits of Sin, which naturally rise from the apprehensions of Death.
Էջ 137 - Y, when it precedes a vowel. This, and some other innovations in the measure of his verse, has varied his numbers in such a manner, as makes them incapable of satiating the ear, and cloying the reader, which the same uniform measure would certainly have done, and which the perpetual returns of rhyme never fail to do in long narrative poems.
Էջ 88 - There is in these several characters of Homer, a certain dignity as well as novelty, which adapts them in a more peculiar manner to the nature of an heroic poem. Though at the same time, to give them the greater variety, he has described a Vulcan, that is a buffoon among his gods, and a Thersites among his mortals.
Էջ 112 - I shall show more at large in another paper ; though considering how all the poets of the age in which he writ were infected with this wrong way of thinking, he is rather to be admired that he did not give more into it, than that he did sometimes comply with the vicious taste which still prevails so much among modern writers.
Էջ 151 - A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he...