The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Página 158
... looks down with a generous Neglect on the Cenfures and Applaufes of the Multitude , and places a Man beyond the little Noife and Strife of Tongues . Accordingly we find in our felves a fecret Awe and Veneration for the Character of one ...
... looks down with a generous Neglect on the Cenfures and Applaufes of the Multitude , and places a Man beyond the little Noife and Strife of Tongues . Accordingly we find in our felves a fecret Awe and Veneration for the Character of one ...
Página 159
... look upon him as their Equal . the BUT further , a Man whose extraordinary Reputation thus lifts him up to the Notice and Observation of Man- kind , draws a Multitude of Eyes upon him that will nar- rowly rowly infpect every Part of him ...
... look upon him as their Equal . the BUT further , a Man whose extraordinary Reputation thus lifts him up to the Notice and Observation of Man- kind , draws a Multitude of Eyes upon him that will nar- rowly rowly infpect every Part of him ...
Página 164
... her Eafe and Happiness ; as a Woman uses all her Endea- vours to please the Perfon whom the looks upon as her Honour , her Comfort , and her Support . FOR FOR this Reason I am not very much furprized at 164 The SPECTATOR . No. 295-
... her Eafe and Happiness ; as a Woman uses all her Endea- vours to please the Perfon whom the looks upon as her Honour , her Comfort , and her Support . FOR FOR this Reason I am not very much furprized at 164 The SPECTATOR . No. 295-
Página 167
... look at them all , one for being ⚫ well dreffed , a fecond for his fine Eye , and one particu- ⚫lar one , because he is the leaft Man I ever faw ; but there is fomething fo eafy and pleasant in the Manner of my little Man , that I ...
... look at them all , one for being ⚫ well dreffed , a fecond for his fine Eye , and one particu- ⚫lar one , because he is the leaft Man I ever faw ; but there is fomething fo eafy and pleasant in the Manner of my little Man , that I ...
Página 170
... looks for an Hero in it , fearches for that which Milton never intend- ed ; but if he will needs fix the Name of an Hero upon any Perfon in it , ' tis certainly the Meffiah who is the Hero , both in the principal Action ; and in the ...
... looks for an Hero in it , fearches for that which Milton never intend- ed ; but if he will needs fix the Name of an Hero upon any Perfon in it , ' tis certainly the Meffiah who is the Hero , both in the principal Action ; and in the ...
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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.