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Page 140
... Character , and defcribe the Stature , the Behaviour and Af pect of the Duke of Marlbo- rough , I queftion not but it would fill the Reader with more agree- able Images , and give him a more delightful Entertainment than what can be ...
... Character , and defcribe the Stature , the Behaviour and Af pect of the Duke of Marlbo- rough , I queftion not but it would fill the Reader with more agree- able Images , and give him a more delightful Entertainment than what can be ...
Page 150
... Characters of Horace , Petronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the Effay of which I am now fpeaking . SINCE I have mentioned Longinus , who in his Re- flections has given us the fame Kind of Sublime , which he ...
... Characters of Horace , Petronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the Effay of which I am now fpeaking . SINCE I have mentioned Longinus , who in his Re- flections has given us the fame Kind of Sublime , which he ...
Page 152
... Characters , and the certain Misfortunes of their Lives . The best of the fol- lowing Letters may best represent the Faults I would now point at , and the Anfwer to it the Temper of Mind in a contrary Character . My dear Harriot , IF F ...
... Characters , and the certain Misfortunes of their Lives . The best of the fol- lowing Letters may best represent the Faults I would now point at , and the Anfwer to it the Temper of Mind in a contrary Character . My dear Harriot , IF F ...
Page 154
... Character of a modest Wife is ri- diculous : As for your wild Rallery on Matrimony , ' tis all Hypocrify ; you , and all the hardfome young Wo- men of your Acquaintance , fhew your felves to no o- ⚫ther Purpose than to gain a Conqueft ...
... Character of a modest Wife is ri- diculous : As for your wild Rallery on Matrimony , ' tis all Hypocrify ; you , and all the hardfome young Wo- men of your Acquaintance , fhew your felves to no o- ⚫ther Purpose than to gain a Conqueft ...
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... Character of great Modefty , fo that there is nothing to ' be thought on any other Way . My Mind has ever fince ' been fo wholly bent on her , that I am much in Danger of doing fomething very extravagant , without your speedy Advice to ...
... Character of great Modefty , fo that there is nothing to ' be thought on any other Way . My Mind has ever fince ' been fo wholly bent on her , that I am much in Danger of doing fomething very extravagant , without your speedy Advice to ...
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Page 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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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.
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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.