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... Thought which many young Women of Quality have entertained , to the Hazard of their Characters and the certain Misfortune of their Lives . The firft of the following Letters may best represent the Faults I would now point at , and the ...
... Thought which many young Women of Quality have entertained , to the Hazard of their Characters and the certain Misfortune of their Lives . The firft of the following Letters may best represent the Faults I would now point at , and the ...
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... Thoughts . Thefe Things , dear Madam , will be lafting Satisfactions , when the fine Ladies and the Coxcombs by ... thought on any 6 other Way . My Mind has ever fince been fo wholly bent on her , that I am much in · Danger 6 ' Danger of ...
... Thoughts . Thefe Things , dear Madam , will be lafting Satisfactions , when the fine Ladies and the Coxcombs by ... thought on any 6 other Way . My Mind has ever fince been fo wholly bent on her , that I am much in · Danger 6 ' Danger of ...
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... Thought : It is ftill reach- ing after an empty imaginary Good ; that has not in it the Power to abate or fatisfy it . Most other Things we long for can allay the Cravings of their proper Senfe , and for a while fet the Appetite at Reft ...
... Thought : It is ftill reach- ing after an empty imaginary Good ; that has not in it the Power to abate or fatisfy it . Most other Things we long for can allay the Cravings of their proper Senfe , and for a while fet the Appetite at Reft ...
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... Thought which refines and fanctifies a virtuous Man ? That secret Reft and Contented nefs of Mind , which gives him a perfect Enjoyment of his prefent Con- dition ? That inward Pleafure and Compla- cency , which he feels in doing Good ...
... Thought which refines and fanctifies a virtuous Man ? That secret Reft and Contented nefs of Mind , which gives him a perfect Enjoyment of his prefent Con- dition ? That inward Pleafure and Compla- cency , which he feels in doing Good ...
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... thought capa- ble of advancing the prefent State of Mufick . Mr. SPECTATOR , I Am confiderably obliged to you for your ' fpeedy Publication of my laft in yours of the 18th Inftant , and am in no fmall Hopes of being fettled in the Poft ...
... thought capa- ble of advancing the prefent State of Mufick . Mr. SPECTATOR , I Am confiderably obliged to you for your ' fpeedy Publication of my laft in yours of the 18th Inftant , and am in no fmall Hopes of being fettled in the Poft ...
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Page 381 - ... 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 196 - Aristotle is what agrees with the genius of the Greek language more than with that of any other tongue, and is therefore more used by Homer than by any other poet.
Page 159 - ... carefully to be avoided. The first are such as are affected and unnatural ; the second such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : he has none of those trifling...
Page 12 - I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world, I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought, which many young women of quality have entertained, to the hazard of their characters, and the certain misfortune of their lives. The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at, and the answer to it, the temper of mind in a contrary character.
Page 194 - It is not therefore sufficient that the language of an epic poem be perspicuous, unless it be also sublime. To this end, it ought to deviate from the common forms and ordinary phrases of speech.
Page 261 - Paper to shew, that this kind of Implex Fable, wherein the Event is unhappy, is more apt to affect an Audience than that of the first kind...
Page 87 - THERE is nothing in nature so irksome as general discourses, especially when they turn chiefly upon words. For this reason, I shall wave the discussion of that point which was started some years since, whether Milton's Paradise Lost may be called an heroic poem? Those who will not give it that title may call it, if they please, a divine poem. It will be sufficient to its perfection, if it has in it all the beauties of the...
Page 232 - Apollo, who received them very graciously, and resolved to make the author a suitable return for the trouble he had been at in collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just threshed out of the sheaf.
Page 221 - Tartary, being arrived at the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn or caravansary. Having looked about him for some time, he entered into a long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and spread his carpet, in order to repose himself upon it, after the manner of the eastern nations. He had not been long in this posture before he was discovered by some of the guards, who asked him what was his business in that place?
Page 93 - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.