The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Subject of the most fu- but if I could con- blime Pens ; vey you to Pofterity in your pri- vate 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 ...
... Subject of the most fu- but if I could con- blime Pens ; vey you to Pofterity in your pri- vate 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 ...
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... Subject of any Discourse that she has a Share in . I hope you'll propofe this Lady as a Pattern , tho ' I am very much afraid you'll be fo filly to • " • " 6 ⚫ think " 6 ⚫ think Portia , & c . Sabine No. 254. The SPECTATOR . 9.
... Subject of any Discourse that she has a Share in . I hope you'll propofe this Lady as a Pattern , tho ' I am very much afraid you'll be fo filly to • " • " 6 ⚫ think " 6 ⚫ think Portia , & c . Sabine No. 254. The SPECTATOR . 9.
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... Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι Ῥεῖα μάλ ' , ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν TH Hef . " HERE are many Paffions and Tempers of Mind which naturally difpofe us to deprefs and ...
... Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι Ῥεῖα μάλ ' , ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν TH Hef . " HERE are many Paffions and Tempers of Mind which naturally difpofe us to deprefs and ...
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... Subject for it , or that we are pleased by fome im- plicit Kind of Revenge to see him taken down and hum- bled in his Reputation , and in fome Measure reduced to our own Rank , who had fo far raised himself above us in the Reports and ...
... Subject for it , or that we are pleased by fome im- plicit Kind of Revenge to see him taken down and hum- bled in his Reputation , and in fome Measure reduced to our own Rank , who had fo far raised himself above us in the Reports and ...
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... Subject of your Speculations , ( which fince their Appearance in Publick , have been the chief Exercife of the Female loquacious Faculty ) I found the fair Ones poffefs'd with a Diffatisfaction at your prefixing Greek Motto's to the ...
... Subject of your Speculations , ( which fince their Appearance in Publick , have been the chief Exercife of the Female loquacious Faculty ) I found the fair Ones poffefs'd with a Diffatisfaction at your prefixing Greek Motto's to the ...
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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.