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Pagina 139
... produce , I hope your Grace will forgive an Endeavour to pre- serve this Work from Oblivion , by affixing it to your memorable Name . A 2 I fhall I fhall not here prefume to mention the illuftrious Paffages TO THE ...
... produce , I hope your Grace will forgive an Endeavour to pre- serve this Work from Oblivion , by affixing it to your memorable Name . A 2 I fhall I fhall not here prefume to mention the illuftrious Paffages TO THE ...
Pagina 153
... name him in his Absence , and takes Care ' he shall never be the Subject of any Discourse that she has a Share in . I hope you'll propofe this Lady as a Pattern , tho ' I am very much afraid you'll be fo filly to • " • " 6 ⚫ think " 6 ...
... name him in his Absence , and takes Care ' he shall never be the Subject of any Discourse that she has a Share in . I hope you'll propofe this Lady as a Pattern , tho ' I am very much afraid you'll be fo filly to • " • " 6 ⚫ think " 6 ...
Pagina 160
... Name , and facrificing it to the Mirth and Laughter of thofe about him . A Satyr or Libel on one of the com- mon Stamp , never meets with that Reception and Ap- probation among its Readers , as what is aimed at a Per- fon whose Merit ...
... Name , and facrificing it to the Mirth and Laughter of thofe about him . A Satyr or Libel on one of the com- mon Stamp , never meets with that Reception and Ap- probation among its Readers , as what is aimed at a Per- fon whose Merit ...
Pagina 165
... Name of the Place was , they told him it was the Queen's Girdle ; to which he adds , that another wide Field which lay by it , was called the Queen's Veil ; and that in the fame Manner there was a large Portion of Ground fet afide for ...
... Name of the Place was , they told him it was the Queen's Girdle ; to which he adds , that another wide Field which lay by it , was called the Queen's Veil ; and that in the fame Manner there was a large Portion of Ground fet afide for ...
Pagina 166
... Name , J. M. 6 I defire you may infert this in one of your Speculations , to fher my Zeal for removing the Diffatisfaction of the Fair Sex , and reftoring you to their Favour . SIR , I Was fome time fince in Company with a young Of ...
... Name , J. M. 6 I defire you may infert this in one of your Speculations , to fher my Zeal for removing the Diffatisfaction of the Fair Sex , and reftoring you to their Favour . SIR , I Was fome time fince in Company with a young Of ...
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Action admired Æneid againſt agreeable alfo anſwer Beauty becauſe befides Behaviour beſt Character Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation Criticks defcribed Defcription Defign Defire Difcourfe diſcover Drefs Fable faid fame fecond feems felf felves feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend ftill fuch fufficient give greateſt Happineſs herſelf himſelf Honour Houfe Houſe humble Servant Iliad infert itſelf juft Kind Lady laft laſt lefs likewife Loft look Love Mafter Mankind Manner Marriage Meaſure Milton Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature Number obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon Place pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poem Poet poffible prefent publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon Refpect reprefented Senfe Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves theſe Thing thofe thoſe Thoughts thouſand underſtand uſe Virgil Virtue whofe Woman World young
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Pagina 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Pagina 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Pagina 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.