The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Page 148
... these eloquent Drops may no more be lavished on Trifles , or employed as Servants to their wayward Wills ; but reserved for ⚫ferious Occafions in Life , to adorn generous Pity , true Penitence , or real Sorrow . · T I am , & c . No ...
... these eloquent Drops may no more be lavished on Trifles , or employed as Servants to their wayward Wills ; but reserved for ⚫ferious Occafions in Life , to adorn generous Pity , true Penitence , or real Sorrow . · T I am , & c . No ...
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... these Verfes ; as in the four first it is heaved up by feveral Spondees intermixed with proper Breathing- places , and at last trundles down in a continued Line of Dactyles . Kai Καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον , κρατέρ ̓ ἄλγὲ ἔχοντα , Λάαν No ...
... these Verfes ; as in the four first it is heaved up by feveral Spondees intermixed with proper Breathing- places , and at last trundles down in a continued Line of Dactyles . Kai Καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον , κρατέρ ̓ ἄλγὲ ἔχοντα , Λάαν No ...
Page 160
... these fe- cret Springs of Detraction fail , yet very often a vain Oftentation of Wit fets a Man on attacking an establish- ed Name , and facrificing it to the Mirth and Laughter of thofe about him . A Satyr or Libel on one of the com ...
... these fe- cret Springs of Detraction fail , yet very often a vain Oftentation of Wit fets a Man on attacking an establish- ed Name , and facrificing it to the Mirth and Laughter of thofe about him . A Satyr or Libel on one of the com ...
Page 161
... these Places they would fee nothing but Lowliness in the Servant , which would not be difinge- nuous in the Child . All the ill Offices and defamatory Whispers , which take their Birth from Domesticks , would be prevented , if this ...
... these Places they would fee nothing but Lowliness in the Servant , which would not be difinge- nuous in the Child . All the ill Offices and defamatory Whispers , which take their Birth from Domesticks , would be prevented , if this ...
Page 162
... these my Children , who , contrary to my Expectation , are born to me every Year , ftrengthens me fo much , that I have begged their Mo- ther to free me from the Obligation of the above - men- tioned Pin - money , that it may go towards ...
... these my Children , who , contrary to my Expectation , are born to me every Year , ftrengthens me fo much , that I have begged their Mo- ther to free me from the Obligation of the above - men- tioned Pin - money , that it may go towards ...
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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.