The Spectator, Volume 5Tonson, 1739 |
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Page 51
... Imagination . THERE is nothing in the firft and laft Day's Engage- ment which does not appear natural , and agreeable enough to the Ideas moft Readers would conceive of a Fight - between two Armies of Angels . THE fecond Day's ...
... Imagination . THERE is nothing in the firft and laft Day's Engage- ment which does not appear natural , and agreeable enough to the Ideas moft Readers would conceive of a Fight - between two Armies of Angels . THE fecond Day's ...
Page 52
... Imagination all the Woods that grew upon it . There is further a great Beauty in his fingling out by Name these three remarkable Mountains , fo well known to the Greeks . This laft is fuch a Beauty , as the Scene of Milton's War could ...
... Imagination all the Woods that grew upon it . There is further a great Beauty in his fingling out by Name these three remarkable Mountains , fo well known to the Greeks . This laft is fuch a Beauty , as the Scene of Milton's War could ...
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... Imagination of Claudian , with- out its Puerilities . I need not point out the Description of the fallen Angels feeing the Promontories hanging over their Heads in fuch a dreadful manner , with the other numberless Beauties in this Book ...
... Imagination of Claudian , with- out its Puerilities . I need not point out the Description of the fallen Angels feeing the Promontories hanging over their Heads in fuch a dreadful manner , with the other numberless Beauties in this Book ...
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... Imagination with the Fight of the Gods in Homer , before he enter'd upon this Engagement of the Angels . Homer there gives us a Scene of Men , Heroes , and Gods , mix'd together in Battle . Mars animates the contending Armies , and ...
... Imagination with the Fight of the Gods in Homer , before he enter'd upon this Engagement of the Angels . Homer there gives us a Scene of Men , Heroes , and Gods , mix'd together in Battle . Mars animates the contending Armies , and ...
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... Imagination , that at the clofe of the Third Act , as I was thinking of fomething elfe , he whispered in my Ear , These Widows , Sir , are the moft perverse Creatures in the World . But pray , fays he , you that are a Critick , is this ...
... Imagination , that at the clofe of the Third Act , as I was thinking of fomething elfe , he whispered in my Ear , These Widows , Sir , are the moft perverse Creatures in the World . But pray , fays he , you that are a Critick , is this ...
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Page 244 - Being, whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means, whose goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who desire it of him, and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this happiness to all eternity.
Page 132 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 80 - Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Page 232 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks ! ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Page 26 - Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. " Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field : let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth.
Page 155 - But when such persons are introduced as principal actors, and engaged in a series of adventures, they take too much upon them, and are by no means proper for an heroic poem, which ought to appear credible in its principal parts.
Page 132 - Particularly as to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world : it has less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard in it...
Page 29 - I do not remember to have met with any so finely drawn, and so conformable to the notions which are given of them in scripture, as this in Milton. After having...
Page 20 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Page 79 - Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice.