The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Página 148
... House is furnished with Trophies of her Eloquence , rich Cabinets , Piles of China , Japan Screens , and coftly` Jars ; and if you were to come into my great Parlour , you would fancy your felf in an India Ware - houfe : Be- fides this ...
... House is furnished with Trophies of her Eloquence , rich Cabinets , Piles of China , Japan Screens , and coftly` Jars ; and if you were to come into my great Parlour , you would fancy your felf in an India Ware - houfe : Be- fides this ...
Página 153
... house or • Opera , unless you would be laughed at for a very loving Couple most happily paired in the Yoke of Wedlock . ' would recommend the Example of an Acquaintance of ours to your Imitation ; fhe is the most negligent and ...
... house or • Opera , unless you would be laughed at for a very loving Couple most happily paired in the Yoke of Wedlock . ' would recommend the Example of an Acquaintance of ours to your Imitation ; fhe is the most negligent and ...
Página 161
... House for his own / Service , or that of his Family or Children , long before they were admitted . This would create endearing Dependencies ; and the Obligation would have a paternal Air in the Mafter , who would be relieved from much ...
... House for his own / Service , or that of his Family or Children , long before they were admitted . This would create endearing Dependencies ; and the Obligation would have a paternal Air in the Mafter , who would be relieved from much ...
Página 164
... house - wifry , and not have given the malicious World occafion to think , that Drefs and Trifle have al- ways the uppermoft Place in a Woman's Thoughts . I know feveral of my fair Readers urge , in defence of this Practice , that it is ...
... house - wifry , and not have given the malicious World occafion to think , that Drefs and Trifle have al- ways the uppermoft Place in a Woman's Thoughts . I know feveral of my fair Readers urge , in defence of this Practice , that it is ...
Página 180
... House in a Language which no Body understands , except my Lady Mary . She next fet herself to reform ⚫ every Room of my Houfe , having glazed all my Chim- ney - pieces with Looking - glafs , and planted every Cor- ner with fuch Heaps ...
... House in a Language which no Body understands , except my Lady Mary . She next fet herself to reform ⚫ every Room of my Houfe , having glazed all my Chim- ney - pieces with Looking - glafs , and planted every Cor- ner with fuch Heaps ...
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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.