The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Woman turned of thirty , and am on the Obfervation a little ; therefore if you or your Correfpondent had confulted me in your Difcourfe on the Eye , I could have told you , that the Eye of Leonora is flily watchful while it looks ...
... Woman turned of thirty , and am on the Obfervation a little ; therefore if you or your Correfpondent had confulted me in your Difcourfe on the Eye , I could have told you , that the Eye of Leonora is flily watchful while it looks ...
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... Woman there in finer Cloaths than her felf : Thefe are arts of Perfwafion purely Feminine , and which a • tender Heart cannot refift . What I would therefore defire of you , is , to prevail with your Friend who has ⚫ promised to ...
... Woman there in finer Cloaths than her felf : Thefe are arts of Perfwafion purely Feminine , and which a • tender Heart cannot refift . What I would therefore defire of you , is , to prevail with your Friend who has ⚫ promised to ...
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... Woman : ' Tis a little Infolence in me , perhaps , to advise a Matron ; but I am so afraid you'll make fo filly a figure as a fond Wife , that I can- not help warning you not to appear in any publick Places ' with your Husband , and ...
... Woman : ' Tis a little Infolence in me , perhaps , to advise a Matron ; but I am so afraid you'll make fo filly a figure as a fond Wife , that I can- not help warning you not to appear in any publick Places ' with your Husband , and ...
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... · · 6 ⚫ difcreet , ingenious , pleasant , pious Woman ; I wish she had the handling of you and Mrs. Modifh ; you would find , if you were too free with her , fhe would foon " make you as charming as ever you were , fhe would make ...
... · · 6 ⚫ difcreet , ingenious , pleasant , pious Woman ; I wish she had the handling of you and Mrs. Modifh ; you would find , if you were too free with her , fhe would foon " make you as charming as ever you were , fhe would make ...
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... Woman of a good Family , and of an high Spirit ; but ⚫ could not bring her to clofe with me , before I had en- tered into a Treaty with her longer than that of the • Grand Alliance . Among other Articles , it was there- in ftipulated ...
... Woman of a good Family , and of an high Spirit ; but ⚫ could not bring her to clofe with me , before I had en- tered into a Treaty with her longer than that of the • Grand Alliance . Among other Articles , it was there- in ftipulated ...
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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.