The Spectator, Volume 5Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 82
... observed , that there may be a and brings inftances out of antient authors to fupport this his opinion . The pathetic , as that great critic ob- ferves , may animate and inflame the fublime , but is not effential to it . Accordingly ...
... observed , that there may be a and brings inftances out of antient authors to fupport this his opinion . The pathetic , as that great critic ob- ferves , may animate and inflame the fublime , but is not effential to it . Accordingly ...
Page 194
... observed how the plan of Milton's poem is in many particulars greater than that of the Iliad , or Æneid . Virgil's hero , in the last of these poems , is entertained with a fight of all those who are to defcend from him ; but though ...
... observed how the plan of Milton's poem is in many particulars greater than that of the Iliad , or Æneid . Virgil's hero , in the last of these poems , is entertained with a fight of all those who are to defcend from him ; but though ...
Page 226
... observations on a work which does an honour to the English nation . I have taken a general view of it under thefe four heads , the fable , the characters , the fentiments , and the lan- guage , and made each of them the subject of a ...
... observations on a work which does an honour to the English nation . I have taken a general view of it under thefe four heads , the fable , the characters , the fentiments , and the lan- guage , and made each of them the subject of a ...
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