The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... obliged by cruel Parents to take for merce- nary Reasons , but at the fame Time fhe cannot look as if she loved ; her Eye is full of Sorrow , and Reluc- tance fits in a Tear , while the offering of the Sacrifice is performed in what we ...
... obliged by cruel Parents to take for merce- nary Reasons , but at the fame Time fhe cannot look as if she loved ; her Eye is full of Sorrow , and Reluc- tance fits in a Tear , while the offering of the Sacrifice is performed in what we ...
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... obliged myfelf to pay Quarterly ⚫ into the Hands of one who acted as her Plenipotenti- ary in that Affair . I have ever fince religioufly ob- ferved my Part in this folemn Agreement . Now , Sir , fo it is , that the Lady has had ...
... obliged myfelf to pay Quarterly ⚫ into the Hands of one who acted as her Plenipotenti- ary in that Affair . I have ever fince religioufly ob- ferved my Part in this folemn Agreement . Now , Sir , fo it is , that the Lady has had ...
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... oblige Your daily Reader , Charity Froft . SIR , I Am a great Lover of Dancing , but cannot perform fo well as fome others ; however , by my Out - of- the - way Capers , and fome original Grimaces , I don't . ⚫ fail to divert the ...
... oblige Your daily Reader , Charity Froft . SIR , I Am a great Lover of Dancing , but cannot perform fo well as fome others ; however , by my Out - of- the - way Capers , and fome original Grimaces , I don't . ⚫ fail to divert the ...
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... obliged . to leave him with his Wife and Nieces ; where they fpoke with fo much Contempt of an absent Gentleman for being flow at a Hint , that he had refolved never to be drowly , unmannerly , or ftupid for the future at a • Friend's ...
... obliged . to leave him with his Wife and Nieces ; where they fpoke with fo much Contempt of an absent Gentleman for being flow at a Hint , that he had refolved never to be drowly , unmannerly , or ftupid for the future at a • Friend's ...
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... obliged to move about my own Houfe with the greatest Caution and Circumfpection , for fear of hurting fome of our brittle Furniture . She makes an Illumination once a " Week with Wax - Candles in one of the largest Rooms , in Order , as ...
... obliged to move about my own Houfe with the greatest Caution and Circumfpection , for fear of hurting fome of our brittle Furniture . She makes an Illumination once a " Week with Wax - Candles in one of the largest Rooms , in Order , as ...
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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
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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.