The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Page 149
... fuch as have not fucceeded in it to depreciate the Works of those who have . For fince they cannot raise themselves to the Reputation of their Fellow - Writers , they must en- deavour to fink it to their own Pitch , if they would still ...
... fuch as have not fucceeded in it to depreciate the Works of those who have . For fince they cannot raise themselves to the Reputation of their Fellow - Writers , they must en- deavour to fink it to their own Pitch , if they would still ...
Page 150
... fuch as the Reader muft affent to , when he fees them explained with that Elegance and Perfpicuity in which they are delivered . As for those which are the moft known , and the moft received , they are placed in fo beautiful a Light ...
... fuch as the Reader muft affent to , when he fees them explained with that Elegance and Perfpicuity in which they are delivered . As for those which are the moft known , and the moft received , they are placed in fo beautiful a Light ...
Page 151
... fuch a Beauty to this Paffage , as would have been very much admired in an antient Poet . The Reader may obferve the following Lines in the fame View . A needless Alexandrine ends the Song , That like a wounded Snake , drags its flow ...
... fuch a Beauty to this Paffage , as would have been very much admired in an antient Poet . The Reader may obferve the following Lines in the fame View . A needless Alexandrine ends the Song , That like a wounded Snake , drags its flow ...
Page 155
... fuch a one , and by what I can learn she has a * 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 ...
... fuch a one , and by what I can learn she has a * 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 ...
Page 156
... fuch Actions as are apt to procure Honour and Reputation to the Actor . But if we carry our Reflections higher , we may discover further Ends of Providence in implanting this Paffion in Mankind . Ir was neceffary for the World , that ...
... fuch Actions as are apt to procure Honour and Reputation to the Actor . But if we carry our Reflections higher , we may discover further Ends of Providence in implanting this Paffion in Mankind . Ir was neceffary for the World , that ...
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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.
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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.
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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.