The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Página 169
... Milton's Paradise Loft ; not doubt- ing but the Reader will pardon me , if I alledge at the fame Time whatever may be faid for the Extenuation of fuch Defects . The firft Imperfection which I fhall ob- ferve in the Fable is that the ...
... Milton's Paradise Loft ; not doubt- ing but the Reader will pardon me , if I alledge at the fame Time whatever may be faid for the Extenuation of fuch Defects . The firft Imperfection which I fhall ob- ferve in the Fable is that the ...
Página 170
... Milton's Hero . I think I have obviated this Objection in my first Paper . The Para- dife Loft is an Epic or a Narrative Poem , he that looks for an Hero in it , fearches for that which Milton never intend- ed ; but if he will needs fix ...
... Milton's Hero . I think I have obviated this Objection in my first Paper . The Para- dife Loft is an Epic or a Narrative Poem , he that looks for an Hero in it , fearches for that which Milton never intend- ed ; but if he will needs fix ...
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... Milton's is not of a fublimer Nature I will not prefume to determine : It is fufficient that I fhew there is in the Para- dife Loft all the Greatnefs of Plan , Regularity of Defign , and masterly Beauties which we discover in Homer and ...
... Milton's is not of a fublimer Nature I will not prefume to determine : It is fufficient that I fhew there is in the Para- dife Loft all the Greatnefs of Plan , Regularity of Defign , and masterly Beauties which we discover in Homer and ...
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... Milton's Complaint of his Blindnefs , his Panegyrick on Mar- riage , his Reflections on Adam and Eve's going Naked , of the Angels Eating , and feveral other Paffages in his Poem , are liable to the fame Exception , tho ' I must con ...
... Milton's Complaint of his Blindnefs , his Panegyrick on Mar- riage , his Reflections on Adam and Eve's going Naked , of the Angels Eating , and feveral other Paffages in his Poem , are liable to the fame Exception , tho ' I must con ...
Página 173
... Milton : As I cannot whol- ly refute it , fo I have already apologized for it in another Paper : To which I may further add , that Milton's Sen- timents and Ideas were fo wonderfully Sublime , that it would have been impoffible for him ...
... Milton : As I cannot whol- ly refute it , fo I have already apologized for it in another Paper : To which I may further add , that Milton's Sen- timents and Ideas were fo wonderfully Sublime , that it would have been impoffible for him ...
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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.