The Spectator. ...S. Buckley; and J. Tonson, 1712 |
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... Quality have entertained , to the Hazard of their Characters and the certain Misfortune of their Lives . The firft of the following Letters may best represent the Faults I would now point at , and the Answer to it the Temper of Mind in ...
... Quality have entertained , to the Hazard of their Characters and the certain Misfortune of their Lives . The firft of the following Letters may best represent the Faults I would now point at , and the Answer to it the Temper of Mind in ...
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... Quality in the Church . This abfurd Custom had better be abolished than re- tained , if it were but to prevent Evils of no high- er a Nature than this is , but I am informed of Objections much more confiderable : A Diffen- ter of Rank ...
... Quality in the Church . This abfurd Custom had better be abolished than re- tained , if it were but to prevent Evils of no high- er a Nature than this is , but I am informed of Objections much more confiderable : A Diffen- ter of Rank ...
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... Quality are befpeaking Plays of me to be acted upon fuch a Day , and others , Hogfheads for their Houfes , against fuch a Time ; I am wholly employ'd in the agree- able Service of Wit and Wine : Sir , I have fent you Sir Roger de ...
... Quality are befpeaking Plays of me to be acted upon fuch a Day , and others , Hogfheads for their Houfes , against fuch a Time ; I am wholly employ'd in the agree- able Service of Wit and Wine : Sir , I have fent you Sir Roger de ...
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... Quality who dies for her . The Examination of a young Girl for Bufinefs , and the crying down her Value for being a flight Thing , together with every other Circumftance in the Scene , are inimitably excellent , and have the true Spirit ...
... Quality who dies for her . The Examination of a young Girl for Bufinefs , and the crying down her Value for being a flight Thing , together with every other Circumftance in the Scene , are inimitably excellent , and have the true Spirit ...
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... Quality , makes me acquaint you of an Affair that I hope will oblige you to 66 know . I have a Niece that came to Town about a Fortnight ago . Her Parents being lately dead the came to me , expecting to 66 a found me in fo good a ...
... Quality , makes me acquaint you of an Affair that I hope will oblige you to 66 know . I have a Niece that came to Town about a Fortnight ago . Her Parents being lately dead the came to me , expecting to 66 a found me in fo good a ...
Términos y frases comunes
Action Æneid Affembly againſt agreeable alfo Anſwer Beauty becauſe Behaviour beſt Buſineſs Cafe Character Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation Criticks defcribed Defcription Defign Defire Difcourfe diſcover Drefs Enville Fable faid fame feems felf felves fent feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend ftill fuch fufficient give greateſt Happineſs herſelf himſelf Homer Honour Houfe Houſe humble Servant Iliad juft Kind Lady laft leaft lefs Letter Loft look Love Mafter Mankind Manner Marriage Meaſure Milton Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary Number obferved Occafion Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poem Poet poffibly prefent publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon reprefented ſelf Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves ther theſe Thing thofe thoſe Thoughts tion underſtand uſed Virgil Virtue whofe Woman World young
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Página 381 - ... 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 196 - Aristotle is what agrees with the genius of the Greek language more than with that of any other tongue, and is therefore more used by Homer than by any other poet.
Página 159 - ... carefully to be avoided. The first are such as are affected and unnatural ; the second such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : he has none of those trifling...
Página 12 - I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world, I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought, which many young women of quality have entertained, to the hazard of their characters, and the certain misfortune of their lives. The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at, and the answer to it, the temper of mind in a contrary character.
Página 194 - It is not therefore sufficient that the language of an epic poem be perspicuous, unless it be also sublime. To this end, it ought to deviate from the common forms and ordinary phrases of speech.
Página 261 - Paper to shew, that this kind of Implex Fable, wherein the Event is unhappy, is more apt to affect an Audience than that of the first kind...
Página 87 - THERE is nothing in nature so irksome as general discourses, especially when they turn chiefly upon words. For this reason, I shall wave the discussion of that point which was started some years since, whether Milton's Paradise Lost may be called an heroic poem? Those who will not give it that title may call it, if they please, a divine poem. It will be sufficient to its perfection, if it has in it all the beauties of the...
Página 232 - Apollo, who received them very graciously, and resolved to make the author a suitable return for the trouble he had been at in collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just threshed out of the sheaf.
Página 221 - Tartary, being arrived at the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn or caravansary. Having looked about him for some time, he entered into a long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and spread his carpet, in order to repose himself upon it, after the manner of the eastern nations. He had not been long in this posture before he was discovered by some of the guards, who asked him what was his business in that place?
Página 93 - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.