The Spectator, Հատոր 4Tonson, 1738 |
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... tion the illustrious Paffages of Your Life , which are celebrated by the whole Age , and have been the Subject of the most fublime Pens ; but if I could convey You to Pof- terity in your private Character , and defcribe the Stature ...
... tion the illustrious Paffages of Your Life , which are celebrated by the whole Age , and have been the Subject of the most fublime Pens ; but if I could convey You to Pof- terity in your private Character , and defcribe the Stature ...
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... which more denotes a great Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detrac- tion . This Paffion reigns more among bad Poets , than among any other Set of Men . AS AS there are none more ambitious of Fame , than 12 N ° 253 The SPECTATOR .
... which more denotes a great Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detrac- tion . This Paffion reigns more among bad Poets , than among any other Set of Men . AS AS there are none more ambitious of Fame , than 12 N ° 253 The SPECTATOR .
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... tion can't difguife it . · 6 6 I am married , and have no other Concern but to please the Man I Love ; he's the End of every care I have ; if I drefs ' tis for him , if I read a Poem or a Play , ' tis to ⚫ qualify my felf for a ...
... tion can't difguife it . · 6 6 I am married , and have no other Concern but to please the Man I Love ; he's the End of every care I have ; if I drefs ' tis for him , if I read a Poem or a Play , ' tis to ⚫ qualify my felf for a ...
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... 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 , as it were , and engaged contrary to their natural Inclinations in a glorious and ...
... 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 , as it were , and engaged contrary to their natural Inclinations in a glorious and ...
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... tion that best and most significant of Applaufes , Well done thou good and faithful Servant , enter thou into thy Maf ser's Joy . No 258. Wednesday , December 26 . PL tures . Divide & Impera . LEASURE and Recreation of one Kind or other ...
... tion that best and most significant of Applaufes , Well done thou good and faithful Servant , enter thou into thy Maf ser's Joy . No 258. Wednesday , December 26 . PL tures . Divide & Impera . LEASURE and Recreation of one Kind or other ...
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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...