The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Page 143
... Actions is not fubject to Diminution , nor can any Attempts prevail against it , but in the Proportion which the narrow Circuit of Rumour bears to the unlimited Extent of Fame . WE may congratulate your Grace not only upon your high ...
... Actions is not fubject to Diminution , nor can any Attempts prevail against it , but in the Proportion which the narrow Circuit of Rumour bears to the unlimited Extent of Fame . WE may congratulate your Grace not only upon your high ...
Page 156
... Actions , would only influence virtuous Minds ; there would be but small Improvements in the World , were not there fome common Principle of Action work- ing equally with all Men . And fuch a Principle is Ambi- tion or a Defire of Fame ...
... Actions , would only influence virtuous Minds ; there would be but small Improvements in the World , were not there fome common Principle of Action work- ing equally with all Men . And fuch a Principle is Ambi- tion or a Defire of Fame ...
Page 157
... Actions to the Admiration of the World , and to distinguish themselves from the rest of Mankind ? Providence for the ... Action . Others are apt to attribute them to fome false End or In- tention ; and others purposely mifrepresent or ...
... Actions to the Admiration of the World , and to distinguish themselves from the rest of Mankind ? Providence for the ... Action . Others are apt to attribute them to fome false End or In- tention ; and others purposely mifrepresent or ...
Page 158
... Action , to ascribe it to Vain - Glory , and a Defire of Fame in the Actor . Nor is this common Judgment andOpinion of Mankind ill found- ed ; for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by fo ...
... Action , to ascribe it to Vain - Glory , and a Defire of Fame in the Actor . Nor is this common Judgment andOpinion of Mankind ill found- ed ; for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by fo ...
Page 159
... Action , or derogate from the Worth of the prefent , that they may ftill keep him on the fame Level with themselves . The like Kind of Confideration often stirs up the Envy of fuch as were once his Superiors , who think it a Detraction ...
... Action , or derogate from the Worth of the prefent , that they may ftill keep him on the fame Level with themselves . The like Kind of Confideration often stirs up the Envy of fuch as were once his Superiors , who think it a Detraction ...
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Action admired Æneid againſt agreeable alfo anſwer Beauty becauſe befides Behaviour beſt Character Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation Criticks defcribed Defcription Defign Defire Difcourfe diſcover Drefs Fable faid fame fecond feems felf felves feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend ftill fuch fufficient give greateſt Happineſs herſelf himſelf Honour Houfe Houſe humble Servant Iliad infert itſelf juft Kind Lady laft laſt lefs likewife Loft look Love Mafter Mankind Manner Marriage Meaſure Milton Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature Number obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon Place pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poem Poet poffible prefent publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon Refpect reprefented Senfe Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves theſe Thing thofe thoſe Thoughts thouſand underſtand uſe Virgil Virtue whofe Woman World young
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Page 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Page 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Page 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.