The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... raise themselves to the Reputation of their Fellow - Writers , they must en- deavour to fink it to their own Pitch , if they would still keep themselves upon a Level with them . THE greatest Wits that ever were produced in one Age lived ...
... raise themselves to the Reputation of their Fellow - Writers , they must en- deavour to fink it to their own Pitch , if they would still keep themselves upon a Level with them . THE greatest Wits that ever were produced in one Age lived ...
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... grow weary in their Praises of one , who fets too great a Value on them , left they should raise him too high in his own imagination , and and by confequence remove him to a greater Distance from No.255 . No. 255. The SPECTATOR . 13.
... grow weary in their Praises of one , who fets too great a Value on them , left they should raise him too high in his own imagination , and and by confequence remove him to a greater Distance from No.255 . No. 255. The SPECTATOR . 13.
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... - bled in his Reputation , and in fome Measure reduced to our own Rank , who had fo far raised himself above us in the Reports and Opinions of Mankind . THUS gentle Ufage ? It is the common Vice of Children 16 The SPECTATOR . No. 256 .
... - bled in his Reputation , and in fome Measure reduced to our own Rank , who had fo far raised himself above us in the Reports and Opinions of Mankind . THUS gentle Ufage ? It is the common Vice of Children 16 The SPECTATOR . No. 256 .
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... raised upon contrary Plans . I mut however own , that I think this Kind of Fable , which is the most perfect in Tragedy , is not fo proper for an Heroick Poem . MILION feems to have been fenfible of this Imper- fection in his Fable ...
... raised upon contrary Plans . I mut however own , that I think this Kind of Fable , which is the most perfect in Tragedy , is not fo proper for an Heroick Poem . MILION feems to have been fenfible of this Imper- fection in his Fable ...
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... raise the Ideas of the Author . Tully tells us , mentioning his Dialogue of Old Age , in which Cato is the chief Speaker , that upon a Review of it he was agreeably impofed upon , and fancied that it was Cato , and not he himself , who ...
... raise the Ideas of the Author . Tully tells us , mentioning his Dialogue of Old Age , in which Cato is the chief Speaker , that upon a Review of it he was agreeably impofed upon , and fancied that it was Cato , and not he himself , who ...
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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.