The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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... fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune by secret methods to other men . If he has not the pomp of a numerous train , and of professors of ser- vice to him , he has every day he lives ...
... fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune by secret methods to other men . If he has not the pomp of a numerous train , and of professors of ser- vice to him , he has every day he lives ...
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... fable , which is perfect or im- perfect , according as the action which it relates is more or less so . This action should have three qualifications in it . First , it should be but one ac- tion . Secondly , it should be an entire ...
... fable , which is perfect or im- perfect , according as the action which it relates is more or less so . This action should have three qualifications in it . First , it should be but one ac- tion . Secondly , it should be an entire ...
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... fable , though at the same time that great critic and philosopher endea- vours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some measure to the very nature of an epic poem . Some have been of opinion , that the ...
... fable , though at the same time that great critic and philosopher endea- vours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some measure to the very nature of an epic poem . Some have been of opinion , that the ...
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... fable , and secondly the manners ; or , as we generally call them in English , the fable and the characters . Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is ...
... fable , and secondly the manners ; or , as we generally call them in English , the fable and the characters . Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is ...
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... fable was capable of receiving . The whole species of man- kind was in two persons at the time to which the subject of his poem is confined . We have , however , four distinct characters in these two persons . We see man and woman in ...
... fable was capable of receiving . The whole species of man- kind was in two persons at the time to which the subject of his poem is confined . We have , however , four distinct characters in these two persons . We see man and woman in ...
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Page 232 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 234 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 343 - On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he, in delight Both of her beauty and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers...
Page 234 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 234 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 165 - 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 344 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...
Page 271 - To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe. Space may produce new worlds...
Page 342 - So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or Angel; for they thought no ill: So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 60 - ¿Eneid also labours in this particular, and has episodes which may be looked upon as excrescences rather than as parts of the action. On the contrary, the poem which we have now under our consideration, hath no other episodes than such as naturally arise from the subject, and yet is filled with such a multitude of astonishing incidents...