The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Page 148
... a great Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detracti- on . This Paffion reigns more among bad Poets , than among any other Set of Men . As As there are none more ambitious of Fame , than 4 The SPECTATOR . No. 253 .
... a great Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detracti- on . This Paffion reigns more among bad Poets , than among any other Set of Men . As As there are none more ambitious of Fame , than 4 The SPECTATOR . No. 253 .
Page 149
... Poem on Fletcher's Works ! But whither am I ftray'd ? I need not raife Trophies to thee from other Men's Difpraife : Nor is thy Fame on leffer Ruins built , Nor needs thy jufter Title the foul Guilt Of Eaftern Kings , who to fecure ...
... Poem on Fletcher's Works ! But whither am I ftray'd ? I need not raife Trophies to thee from other Men's Difpraife : Nor is thy Fame on leffer Ruins built , Nor needs thy jufter Title the foul Guilt Of Eaftern Kings , who to fecure ...
Page 150
... Stroaks of this Nature into a very fine Poem , I mean The Art of Criticifm , which was publish'd fome Months fince , and is a Mafter - piece in its Kind . The Obfervations fol- low one another like thofe in Horace's Art of ... Poem, ...
... Stroaks of this Nature into a very fine Poem , I mean The Art of Criticifm , which was publish'd fome Months fince , and is a Mafter - piece in its Kind . The Obfervations fol- low one another like thofe in Horace's Art of ... Poem, ...
Page 152
... Poems in our Tongue , which are of the fame Nature , and each of them a Master - piece in its Kind ; the Effay on tranflated Verse , the Effay on the Art of Poetry , and the Effay upon Criticism . C No. 254. Friday , December 21 ...
... Poems in our Tongue , which are of the fame Nature , and each of them a Master - piece in its Kind ; the Effay on tranflated Verse , the Effay on the Art of Poetry , and the Effay upon Criticism . C No. 254. Friday , December 21 ...
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... Poem or a Play , ' tis to qualify my felf for a Converfation agreeable to his Tafte : He's almoft the End of my Devotions ; half my Prayers are for his Happiness- I love to talk of him , and ne- ver hear him named but with Pleasure and ...
... Poem or a Play , ' tis to qualify my felf for a Converfation agreeable to his Tafte : He's almoft the End of my Devotions ; half my Prayers are for his Happiness- I love to talk of him , and ne- ver hear him named but with Pleasure and ...
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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.