The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Action , to awaken the Understanding , to enforce the Will , and to make the whole Man more vigorous and attentive in the Prosecution of his Defigns . As this is the End of the Paffions in general , fo it is particularly of Ambition ...
... Action , to awaken the Understanding , to enforce the Will , and to make the whole Man more vigorous and attentive in the Prosecution of his Defigns . As this is the End of the Paffions in general , fo it is particularly of Ambition ...
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... Action . Others are apt to attribute them to fome false End or In- tention ; and others purposely mifrepresent or put a wrong Interpretation on them . But the more to enforce this Confideration , we may observe that those are generally ...
... Action . Others are apt to attribute them to fome false End or In- tention ; and others purposely mifrepresent or put a wrong Interpretation on them . But the more to enforce this Confideration , we may observe that those are generally ...
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... Action , to ascribe it to Vain - Glory , and a Defire of Fame in the Actor . Nor is this common Judgment andOpinion of Mankind ill found- ed ; for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by fo ...
... Action , to ascribe it to Vain - Glory , and a Defire of Fame in the Actor . Nor is this common Judgment andOpinion of Mankind ill found- ed ; for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by fo ...
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... Action , or derogate from the Worth of the prefent , that they may ftill keep him on the fame Level with themselves . The like Kind of Confideration often stirs up the Envy of fuch as were once his Superiors , who think it a Detraction ...
... Action , or derogate from the Worth of the prefent , that they may ftill keep him on the fame Level with themselves . The like Kind of Confideration often stirs up the Envy of fuch as were once his Superiors , who think it a Detraction ...
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... Action ; and in the chief Epifades . Paganism . Paganism could not furnish out a real Action for 170 The SPECTATOR . No. 297.
... Action ; and in the chief Epifades . Paganism . Paganism could not furnish out a real Action for 170 The SPECTATOR . No. 297.
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Action admired Æneid againſt agreeable alfo anſwer Beauty becauſe befides Behaviour beſt Character Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation Criticks defcribed Defcription Defign Defire Difcourfe diſcover Drefs Fable faid fame fecond feems felf felves feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend ftill fuch fufficient give greateſt Happineſs herſelf himſelf Honour Houfe Houſe humble Servant Iliad infert itſelf juft Kind Lady laft laſt lefs likewife Loft look Love Mafter Mankind Manner Marriage Meaſure Milton Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature Number obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon Place pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poem Poet poffible prefent publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon Refpect reprefented Senfe Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves theſe Thing thofe thoſe Thoughts thouſand underſtand uſe Virgil Virtue whofe Woman World young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Seite 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Seite 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Seite 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.
Seite 132 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Seite 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.
Seite 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Seite 250 - Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination, freewill and grace, as also the great points 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.
Seite 197 - The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry, which rises in a great measure from its describing the places where they were worshipped, by those beautiful marks of rivers, so frequent among the ancient poets. The author had doubtless in this place Homer's catalogue of ships, and Virgil's list of warriors, in his view. The characters of Moloch and Belial...
Seite 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.