The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... laft Sunday , in the midst of Divine Service , upon my coming into the fame Pew . Pray , Sir , what must I do in this Bufiness ? Your Servant Let her alone Ten Days . Mr. SPECTATOR , EUPHUES . York , Jan. 20. 1711-12 . E have in this ...
... laft Sunday , in the midst of Divine Service , upon my coming into the fame Pew . Pray , Sir , what must I do in this Bufiness ? Your Servant Let her alone Ten Days . Mr. SPECTATOR , EUPHUES . York , Jan. 20. 1711-12 . E have in this ...
Page 170
... laft Sort of Implex Fable , particularly the Tragedy of OEdipus , which proceeds upon a Story , if we may believe Ariftotle , the most proper for Tragedy that could be invented by the Wit of Man . I have taken fome Pains in a former ...
... laft Sort of Implex Fable , particularly the Tragedy of OEdipus , which proceeds upon a Story , if we may believe Ariftotle , the most proper for Tragedy that could be invented by the Wit of Man . I have taken fome Pains in a former ...
Page 174
... laft Fault which I fhall take notice of in Milton's Style , is the frequent Ufe of what the Learned call Techni- cal Words , or Terms of Art . It is one of the great Beau- ties of Poetry , to make hard Things intelligible , and to ...
... laft Fault which I fhall take notice of in Milton's Style , is the frequent Ufe of what the Learned call Techni- cal Words , or Terms of Art . It is one of the great Beau- ties of Poetry , to make hard Things intelligible , and to ...
Page 181
... laft paft , to remove into one of the Squares at the other End of the Town , promifing for my Encouragement , that I fhall have as good a • Cock - loft as any Gentleman in the Square ; to which the Honourable Oddly Enville , Efq ...
... laft paft , to remove into one of the Squares at the other End of the Town , promifing for my Encouragement , that I fhall have as good a • Cock - loft as any Gentleman in the Square ; to which the Honourable Oddly Enville , Efq ...
Page 184
... laft Day of the Term , and then he'll appear gratis , and pray no Day over . Yours , 6 " < 6 6 Mr. SPECTATOR , I Philanthropos . Was laft Night to vifit a Lady who I much esteem , and always took for my Friend ; but met with fo very ...
... laft Day of the Term , and then he'll appear gratis , and pray no Day over . Yours , 6 " < 6 6 Mr. SPECTATOR , I Philanthropos . Was laft Night to vifit a Lady who I much esteem , and always took for my Friend ; but met with fo very ...
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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.