The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... greatest Wits that ever were produced in one Age lived together in fo good an Understanding , and cele- brated one another with fo much Generofity , that each of them receives an additional Luftre from his Contempo- raries , and is more ...
... greatest Wits that ever were produced in one Age lived together in fo good an Understanding , and cele- brated one another with fo much Generofity , that each of them receives an additional Luftre from his Contempo- raries , and is more ...
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... greatest Abilities are most fired with Am- bition : And that , on the contrary , mean and narrow Minds are the least actuated by it ; whether it be that a Man's Senfe of his own Incapacities makes him despair of coming at Fame , or that ...
... greatest Abilities are most fired with Am- bition : And that , on the contrary , mean and narrow Minds are the least actuated by it ; whether it be that a Man's Senfe of his own Incapacities makes him despair of coming at Fame , or that ...
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... greatest Character . A folid and fubftantial Greatness of Soul looks down with a generous Neglect on the Cenfures and Applaufes of the Multitude , and places a Man beyond the little Noife and Strife of Tongues . Accordingly we find in ...
... greatest Character . A folid and fubftantial Greatness of Soul looks down with a generous Neglect on the Cenfures and Applaufes of the Multitude , and places a Man beyond the little Noife and Strife of Tongues . Accordingly we find in ...
Page 159
... greatest Characters . IN the next place , Fame is eafily loft , and as difficult to be preferved as it was at firft to be acquired . But this I shall make the Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε ...
... greatest Characters . IN the next place , Fame is eafily loft , and as difficult to be preferved as it was at firft to be acquired . But this I shall make the Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε ...
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... greatest Conquerors have burnt their Ships , or broke down the Bridges behind them , as being determined either to fucceed or die in the En- gagement . In the fame manner I should very much fuf- pect a Woman who takes fuch Precautions ...
... greatest Conquerors have burnt their Ships , or broke down the Bridges behind them , as being determined either to fucceed or die in the En- gagement . In the fame manner I should very much fuf- pect a Woman who takes fuch Precautions ...
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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.