The Spectator, Volume 4George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... Aristotle , and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age . His way of expressing and applying them , not his invention of them , is what we are chiefly to admire . . " For this reason I think there is nothing ...
... Aristotle , and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age . His way of expressing and applying them , not his invention of them , is what we are chiefly to admire . . " For this reason I think there is nothing ...
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... Aristotle ( Poetics , ' xxiii . 1 ) says that in Narrative poetry the fable ought to be dramatically constructed , like that of Tragedy ; and it should have for its subject one entire and perfect action , having a beginning , a middle ...
... Aristotle ( Poetics , ' xxiii . 1 ) says that in Narrative poetry the fable ought to be dramatically constructed , like that of Tragedy ; and it should have for its subject one entire and perfect action , having a beginning , a middle ...
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... Aristotle himself allows that Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time that great critic and philosopher 1 To the story ' ( folio ) . 2 2 Poetics , xxvi , 6 . endeavours to palliate this ...
... Aristotle himself allows that Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time that great critic and philosopher 1 To the story ' ( folio ) . 2 2 Poetics , xxvi , 6 . endeavours to palliate this ...
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... Aristotle describes it , when it consists 1 ' Circumstances ' ( folio ) . 2 Both Dr. Johnson and Sir Walter Scott praised highly the skill with which Dryden combined the tragic and comic plots in this play , and made the one dependent ...
... Aristotle describes it , when it consists 1 ' Circumstances ' ( folio ) . 2 Both Dr. Johnson and Sir Walter Scott praised highly the skill with which Dryden combined the tragic and comic plots in this play , and made the one dependent ...
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... Aristotle , by the greatness of the action , does not only mean that it should be great in its nature , but also in its duration , or in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness ...
... Aristotle , by the greatness of the action , does not only mean that it should be great in its nature , but also in its duration , or in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness ...
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Page 370 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 261 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 265 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Page 266 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 263 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 374 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Page 267 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves; There rest, if any rest can...
Page 263 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames, Driven.
Page 143 - For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 9 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...