The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Page 158
... Character he is fo induftrious to ad- vance by it . For tho ' his Actions are never fo glorious , they lofe their Luftre , when they are drawn at large , and fet to fhow by his own Hand ; and as the World is more apt to find Fault than ...
... Character he is fo induftrious to ad- vance by it . For tho ' his Actions are never fo glorious , they lofe their Luftre , when they are drawn at large , and fet to fhow by his own Hand ; and as the World is more apt to find Fault than ...
Page 159
... Characters . IN the next place , Fame is eafily loft , and as difficult to be preferved as it was at firft to be acquired . But this I shall make the Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ ...
... Characters . IN the next place , Fame is eafily loft , and as difficult to be preferved as it was at firft to be acquired . But this I shall make the Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ ...
Page 160
... Character . They p''ifh their ill - natured Discoveries with a fecret Pride , and applaud themselves for the Singularity of their Judgment which has fearched deeper than others , detected what the rest of the World have over - looked ...
... Character . They p''ifh their ill - natured Discoveries with a fecret Pride , and applaud themselves for the Singularity of their Judgment which has fearched deeper than others , detected what the rest of the World have over - looked ...
Page 166
... Character with their Mother - Tongue , by the Affiftance of a Spelling - Book it's legible ; which Quality the Greek wants : And fince the Introduction of Opera's into this Nation , the Ladies are fo charmed with Sounds abstracted from ...
... Character with their Mother - Tongue , by the Affiftance of a Spelling - Book it's legible ; which Quality the Greek wants : And fince the Introduction of Opera's into this Nation , the Ladies are fo charmed with Sounds abstracted from ...
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... Character of Mrs. Judith Lovebane , born in the Year 1680. What I defire of you is , That you difallow that a Coxcomb who pretends to write Verfe , fhould put the moft malicious Thing he çan fay in Profe . This I humbly conceive will ...
... Character of Mrs. Judith Lovebane , born in the Year 1680. What I defire of you is , That you difallow that a Coxcomb who pretends to write Verfe , fhould put the moft malicious Thing he çan fay in Profe . This I humbly conceive will ...
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Page 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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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.
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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.
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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.