The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Present of Secret Hiftory , by tranflating all the Looks of the next Affembly of Ladies and Gentlemen into Words , to adorn fome future -Paper . I am , 6 " SIR , Your faithful Friend ,, Mary Heartfree . " Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , Have a Sot ...
... Present of Secret Hiftory , by tranflating all the Looks of the next Affembly of Ladies and Gentlemen into Words , to adorn fome future -Paper . I am , 6 " SIR , Your faithful Friend ,, Mary Heartfree . " Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , Have a Sot ...
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... present univerfally exploded by all the Masters of polite Writing . THE laft Fault which I fhall take notice of in Milton's Style , is the frequent Ufe of what the Learned call Techni- cal Words , or Terms of Art . It is one of the ...
... present univerfally exploded by all the Masters of polite Writing . THE laft Fault which I fhall take notice of in Milton's Style , is the frequent Ufe of what the Learned call Techni- cal Words , or Terms of Art . It is one of the ...
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... present Admirer , a Clergyman . But I find even amongst them there are indirect Practices in relation to Love , and our Treaty is at prefent a little in Sufpence , • · till · ⚫ till fome Circumstances are cleared . There is 176 The ...
... present Admirer , a Clergyman . But I find even amongst them there are indirect Practices in relation to Love , and our Treaty is at prefent a little in Sufpence , • · till · ⚫ till fome Circumstances are cleared . There is 176 The ...
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... present writes herself Mary Enville . I have had fome Children by her , whom she has Chriftned with the Sirnames of her Family , in order , as fhe tells me , to wear out the • Homeliness of their Parentage by the Father's Side . Our ...
... present writes herself Mary Enville . I have had fome Children by her , whom she has Chriftned with the Sirnames of her Family , in order , as fhe tells me , to wear out the • Homeliness of their Parentage by the Father's Side . Our ...
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... present Enjoyments of it . NOR is Fame only unfatisfying in it felf , but the De- fire of it lays us open to many accidental Troubles which thofe are free from who have no fuch tender Regard for it . How often is the ambitious Man caft ...
... present Enjoyments of it . NOR is Fame only unfatisfying in it felf , but the De- fire of it lays us open to many accidental Troubles which thofe are free from who have no fuch tender Regard for it . How often is the ambitious Man caft ...
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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.