The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Página 159
... firft to be acquired . But this I shall make the Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι Ῥεῖα μάλ ' , ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν TH Hef . " HERE are many Paffions and Tempers of ...
... firft to be acquired . But this I shall make the Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι Ῥεῖα μάλ ' , ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν TH Hef . " HERE are many Paffions and Tempers of ...
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... firft Imperfection which I fhall ob- ferve in the Fable is that the Event of it is unhappy . THE Fable of every Poem is , according to Ariftotle's Divifion , either Simple or Implex . It is called Simple when there is no change of ...
... firft Imperfection which I fhall ob- ferve in the Fable is that the Event of it is unhappy . THE Fable of every Poem is , according to Ariftotle's Divifion , either Simple or Implex . It is called Simple when there is no change of ...
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... firft Kind ; not- withstanding many excellent Pieces amongst the Ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late Years in our own Country , are raised upon contrary Plans . I mut however own , that I think this Kind ...
... firft Kind ; not- withstanding many excellent Pieces amongst the Ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late Years in our own Country , are raised upon contrary Plans . I mut however own , that I think this Kind ...
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... Firft , as there are several of them too much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book , where speaking of is 172 The SPECTATOR . No. 297 . FROM what has been here ...
... Firft , as there are several of them too much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book , where speaking of is 172 The SPECTATOR . No. 297 . FROM what has been here ...
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... firft coming into my Family , fhe turned off a parcel of very careful Servants , who had been long with me , and introduced in their stead a couple of Black - a - moors , and three or ⚫ four very genteel Fellows in Laced Liveries ...
... firft coming into my Family , fhe turned off a parcel of very careful Servants , who had been long with me , and introduced in their stead a couple of Black - a - moors , and three or ⚫ four very genteel Fellows in Laced Liveries ...
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Página 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Página 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Página 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.