The Spectator, Band 4J. Tonson, 1729 |
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... , Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detracti on . This Paffion reigns more among bad Poets ,, than among any other Set of Men . A S there are none more ambitious of Fame , 4 AS 12 N ° 253 . The SPECTATOR . " ...
... , Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detracti on . This Paffion reigns more among bad Poets ,, than among any other Set of Men . A S there are none more ambitious of Fame , 4 AS 12 N ° 253 . The SPECTATOR . " ...
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... Set of Women who are got into the Common - Place Rallery of every Thing that is fober , decent , and proper : Ma- trimony and the Clergy are the Topicks of People of little Wit and no Understanding . I own to you , I have learned of the ...
... Set of Women who are got into the Common - Place Rallery of every Thing that is fober , decent , and proper : Ma- trimony and the Clergy are the Topicks of People of little Wit and no Understanding . I own to you , I have learned of the ...
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... set upon it . SO inconfiderable is the Satisfaction that Fame brings along with it , and fo great the Difquietudes , to which it makes us liable . The Defire of it ftirs up very uneafie Motions in the Mind , and is rather inflamed than ...
... set upon it . SO inconfiderable is the Satisfaction that Fame brings along with it , and fo great the Difquietudes , to which it makes us liable . The Defire of it ftirs up very uneafie Motions in the Mind , and is rather inflamed than ...
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... Set of People , whofe Manners are as natural to them as his Delights , Method of Thinking , and Mode of Living , were formerly to him and his Friends . But the Mif- chief is , he looks upon the fame Kind of Errors which he himself was ...
... Set of People , whofe Manners are as natural to them as his Delights , Method of Thinking , and Mode of Living , were formerly to him and his Friends . But the Mif- chief is , he looks upon the fame Kind of Errors which he himself was ...
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... set on Foot the Royal Society ; and had then a very good Effect , as it turned many of the greatest Ge- mius's of that Age to the Difquifitions of natural Know- Jedge , who , if they had engaged in Politicks with the li fame Parts and ...
... set on Foot the Royal Society ; and had then a very good Effect , as it turned many of the greatest Ge- mius's of that Age to the Difquifitions of natural Know- Jedge , who , if they had engaged in Politicks with the li fame Parts and ...
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Seite 154 - English, a glowing bold expression, and to turn it into ridicule by a cold ill-natured criticism. A little wit is equally capable of exposing a beauty, and of aggravating a fault; and though such a treatment of an author naturally produces indignation in the mind of an understanding reader, it has however its effect among the generality of those whose hands it falls into; the rabble of mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at, with any mixture of wit, is ridiculous in...
Seite 15 - ... gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 148 - The dervise told them he intended to take up his night's lodging in that caravansary. The guards let him know, in a very angry manner, that the house he was in was not a caravansary, but the king's palace. It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate, and smiling at the...
Seite 67 - ... for preserving of this unity of action they follow them in the disposition of the poem. Milton, in imitation of these two great poets, opens his Paradise Lost with an infernal council plotting the fall of man, which is the action he proposed to celebrate...
Seite 202 - 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.
Seite 112 - I shall show more at large in another paper ; though considering how all the poets of the age in which he writ were infected with this wrong way of thinking, he is rather to be admired that he did not give more into it, than that he did sometimes comply with the vicious taste which still prevails so much among modern writers.
Seite 148 - Tartary, being arrived at the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn or caravansary. Having looked about him for some time, he entered into a long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and spread his carpet, in order to repose himself upon it, after the manner of the eastern nations. He had not been long in this posture before he was discovered by some of the guards, who asked him what was his business in that place?
Seite 281 - In short, as the critics have remarked, that in those poems, wherein shepherds are actors, the thoughts ought always to take a tincture from the woods, fields, and rivers...
Seite 112 - I have before said, these are rather to be imputed to the simplicity of the age in which he lived, to which I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Seite 281 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...