The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Book . ONE cannot indeed without Offence , to your self , observe , that you excel the rest of Man- kind in the leaft , as well as the greatest Endowments . Nor were it it a Circumstance to be mention- ed , if the The Dedication .
... Book . ONE cannot indeed without Offence , to your self , observe , that you excel the rest of Man- kind in the leaft , as well as the greatest Endowments . Nor were it it a Circumstance to be mention- ed , if the The Dedication .
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... self , how will he be able to bear up under Scandal and Defamation ? For the fame Temper of Mind which makes him defire Fame , makes him hate Reproach . If he can be transported with the extraordinary Praises of Men , he will be as much ...
... self , how will he be able to bear up under Scandal and Defamation ? For the fame Temper of Mind which makes him defire Fame , makes him hate Reproach . If he can be transported with the extraordinary Praises of Men , he will be as much ...
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... Self - denial : For as the Publick relishes nothing bet- ter than the Ridicule which turns upon a Writer of any Eminence , fo there is nothing which a Man that has but a very ordinary Talent in Ridicule may execute with greater Eafe ...
... Self - denial : For as the Publick relishes nothing bet- ter than the Ridicule which turns upon a Writer of any Eminence , fo there is nothing which a Man that has but a very ordinary Talent in Ridicule may execute with greater Eafe ...
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... self be- came a Father . I had not till then a Notion of the Earnings of Heart , which a Man has when he fees his Child do a laudable Thing , or the fudden Damp which feizes him when he fears he will act fomething unworthy . It is not ...
... self be- came a Father . I had not till then a Notion of the Earnings of Heart , which a Man has when he fees his Child do a laudable Thing , or the fudden Damp which feizes him when he fears he will act fomething unworthy . It is not ...
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... Self - Love , we are more prone to take up the Ill - will of our Parents , than to follow them in their Friendships . < 6 6 ONE would think there fhould need no more to make Men keep up this fort of Relation with the ut- moft Sanctity ...
... Self - Love , we are more prone to take up the Ill - will of our Parents , than to follow them in their Friendships . < 6 6 ONE would think there fhould need no more to make Men keep up this fort of Relation with the ut- moft Sanctity ...
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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.