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Pagina 149
... point at the Reign of Auguftus , and I believe he will be of my Opinion , that neither Virgil nor Horace would have gained fo great a Reputation in the World , had they not been the Friends and Admirers of each other . Indeed all the ...
... point at the Reign of Auguftus , and I believe he will be of my Opinion , that neither Virgil nor Horace would have gained fo great a Reputation in the World , had they not been the Friends and Admirers of each other . Indeed all the ...
Pagina 152
... point at , and the Anfwer to it the Temper of Mind in a contrary Character . My dear Harriot , IF F thou art fhe , but oh how fallen , how changed , ' what an Apoftate ! how loft to all that's gay and agreeable ! To be married I find is ...
... point at , and the Anfwer to it the Temper of Mind in a contrary Character . My dear Harriot , IF F thou art fhe , but oh how fallen , how changed , ' what an Apoftate ! how loft to all that's gay and agreeable ! To be married I find is ...
Pagina 181
... Point of Trade , and if I dif- agree with her about any of my Ships at Sea , wonders that I will difpute with her , when I know very well that her Great Grandfather was a Flag Officer . To compleat my Sufferings , fhe has teised me for ...
... Point of Trade , and if I dif- agree with her about any of my Ships at Sea , wonders that I will difpute with her , when I know very well that her Great Grandfather was a Flag Officer . To compleat my Sufferings , fhe has teised me for ...
Pagina 21
... Point of the fame Nature , which may open to us a more uncommon Field of Speculation . FROM what has been already obferved , I think we may make a natural Conclufion , that it is the greatest Folly to feek the Praife or Approbation of ...
... Point of the fame Nature , which may open to us a more uncommon Field of Speculation . FROM what has been already obferved , I think we may make a natural Conclufion , that it is the greatest Folly to feek the Praife or Approbation of ...
Pagina 30
... Point of Decorum in that Particular . I do not pretend to be the best Courtier in the World , but I have often on publick Occafions thought it a very great Abfurdity in the Company ( during the Royal Pre- fence ) to exchange Salutations ...
... Point of Decorum in that Particular . I do not pretend to be the best Courtier in the World , but I have often on publick Occafions thought it a very great Abfurdity in the Company ( during the Royal Pre- fence ) to exchange Salutations ...
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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.