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Pagina 159
... firft to be acquired . But this I shall make the Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι Ῥεῖα μάλ ' , ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν TH Hef . " HERE are many Paffions and Tempers of ...
... firft to be acquired . But this I shall make the Subject of a following Paper . No. 256. Monday , December 24 . Φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι Ῥεῖα μάλ ' , ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν TH Hef . " HERE are many Paffions and Tempers of ...
Pagina 169
... firft Imperfection which I fhall ob- ferve in the Fable is that the Event of it is unhappy . THE Fable of every Poem is , according to Ariftotle's Divifion , either Simple or Implex . It is called Simple when there is no change of ...
... firft Imperfection which I fhall ob- ferve in the Fable is that the Event of it is unhappy . THE Fable of every Poem is , according to Ariftotle's Divifion , either Simple or Implex . It is called Simple when there is no change of ...
Pagina 170
... firft Kind ; not- withstanding many excellent Pieces amongst the Ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late Years in our own Country , are raised upon contrary Plans . I mut however own , that I think this Kind ...
... firft Kind ; not- withstanding many excellent Pieces amongst the Ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late Years in our own Country , are raised upon contrary Plans . I mut however own , that I think this Kind ...
Pagina 172
... Firft , as there are several of them too much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book , where speaking of is 172 The SPECTATOR . No. 297 . FROM what has been here ...
... Firft , as there are several of them too much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book , where speaking of is 172 The SPECTATOR . No. 297 . FROM what has been here ...
Pagina 179
... firft coming into my Family , fhe turned off a parcel of very careful Servants , who had been long with me , and introduced in their stead a couple of Black - a - moors , and three or ⚫ four very genteel Fellows in Laced Liveries ...
... firft coming into my Family , fhe turned off a parcel of very careful Servants , who had been long with me , and introduced in their stead a couple of Black - a - moors , and three or ⚫ four very genteel Fellows in Laced Liveries ...
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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 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.
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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.