The Spectator, Volume 4Donaldson, 1766 |
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Page 7
... Virgil nor Horace would have gained fo great a reputation in the world , had they not been the friends and admirers of each o- ther . Indeed all the great writers of that age , for whom fingly we have fo great an esteem , stand up ...
... Virgil nor Horace would have gained fo great a reputation in the world , had they not been the friends and admirers of each o- ther . Indeed all the great writers of that age , for whom fingly we have fo great an esteem , stand up ...
Page 11
... Virgil which have this particular kind of beauty in the numbers ; but I may take an occafion in a future paper to fhew feveral of them which have escaped the obfervation of others . I cannot conclude this paper without taking no- tice ...
... Virgil which have this particular kind of beauty in the numbers ; but I may take an occafion in a future paper to fhew feveral of them which have escaped the obfervation of others . I cannot conclude this paper without taking no- tice ...
Page 64
... Virgil , not questioning but that among fuch a variety of colours the fhall have a charm for every heart . My friend WILL , who very much values himself upon his great infights into galantry , tells me , that he , can already guefs at ...
... Virgil , not questioning but that among fuch a variety of colours the fhall have a charm for every heart . My friend WILL , who very much values himself upon his great infights into galantry , tells me , that he , can already guefs at ...
Page 71
... Virgil makes his hero relate it by way of epifode in the fecond and third books of the Æneid . The contents of both which books come before thofe of the first book in the thread of the ftory , though for preferving of this unity of ...
... Virgil makes his hero relate it by way of epifode in the fecond and third books of the Æneid . The contents of both which books come before thofe of the first book in the thread of the ftory , though for preferving of this unity of ...
Page 72
... Virgil , in the poem which was defigned to celebrate the original of the Roman empire , has defcribed the birth of its great rival , the Carthaginian commonwealth : Mil- ton , with the like art , in his poem on the Fall of Man , has ...
... Virgil , in the poem which was defigned to celebrate the original of the Roman empire , has defcribed the birth of its great rival , the Carthaginian commonwealth : Mil- ton , with the like art , in his poem on the Fall of Man , has ...
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action Æneid affembly againſt agreeable alfo anfwer beauty becauſe befides behaviour cafe character circumftances confideration converfation correfpondent defcribed defign defire difcourfe difcover drefs Enville fable faid falutation fame feems feen felves fenfe fent fentiments feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide filks fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon fortune fpeak fpeech fpirit ftate ftill fubject fublime fuch fufficient give greateſt happineſs herſelf himſelf Homer honour houfe humble fervant ibid Iliad itſelf juft kind Lady laft laſt lefs likewife look mankind manner marriage Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffed paffion perfon pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poffible prefent publick racters raiſe reader reafon reprefented ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves ther theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion underſtand uſe Virgil virtue whofe woman young