The Spectator, Հատոր 4Tonson, 1738 |
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... these Verfes . As in the four first it is heaved up by feveral Spondees intermixed with proper Breathing- places , and at last trundles down in a continual Line of Dactyls Καὶ Καὶ μμ Σίσυφον εἰσῶδον , κρατές ̓ ἄλγἐ ἔχοντα , Λιαν N ° 253 ...
... these Verfes . As in the four first it is heaved up by feveral Spondees intermixed with proper Breathing- places , and at last trundles down in a continual Line of Dactyls Καὶ Καὶ μμ Σίσυφον εἰσῶδον , κρατές ̓ ἄλγἐ ἔχοντα , Λιαν N ° 253 ...
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... these little Spots and Sullies in its Reputation ; but if by a mif- taken Pursuit after Fame , or through human İnfirmi- ty , any falfe Step be made in the more momentous Con- cerns of Life , the whole Scheme of ambitious Designs is ...
... these little Spots and Sullies in its Reputation ; but if by a mif- taken Pursuit after Fame , or through human İnfirmi- ty , any falfe Step be made in the more momentous Con- cerns of Life , the whole Scheme of ambitious Designs is ...
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... THESE three Propofitions are felf - evident to thofe who are verfed in Speculations of Morality . For which Reafon I fhall not enlarge upon them , but proceed to a Point of the fame Nature , which may open to us a more uncommon Field of ...
... THESE three Propofitions are felf - evident to thofe who are verfed in Speculations of Morality . For which Reafon I fhall not enlarge upon them , but proceed to a Point of the fame Nature , which may open to us a more uncommon Field of ...
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... These and the like Virtues are the hidden Beauties of a Soul , the fecret Graces which cannot be discovered by a mor- tal Eye , but make the Soul lovely and precious in his Sight , from whom no Secrets are concealed . Again , there are ...
... These and the like Virtues are the hidden Beauties of a Soul , the fecret Graces which cannot be discovered by a mor- tal Eye , but make the Soul lovely and precious in his Sight , from whom no Secrets are concealed . Again , there are ...
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... der certain Rules , but which one would think could not need them . Of this kind are outward Civi- ities and Salutations . These one would imagine might be 37 be regulated by every Man's common Senfe without the 36 N® 259 • The SPECTATOR .
... der certain Rules , but which one would think could not need them . Of this kind are outward Civi- ities and Salutations . These one would imagine might be 37 be regulated by every Man's common Senfe without the 36 N® 259 • The SPECTATOR .
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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...