The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Pagina 140
... most fu- but if I could con- blime Pens ; vey you to Pofterity in your pri- vate Character , and defcribe the Stature , the Behaviour and Af pect of the Duke of Marlbo- rough , I queftion not but it would fill the Reader with more agree ...
... most fu- but if I could con- blime Pens ; vey you to Pofterity in your pri- vate Character , and defcribe the Stature , the Behaviour and Af pect of the Duke of Marlbo- rough , I queftion not but it would fill the Reader with more agree ...
Pagina 141
... most , unobserved by greater Writers . YET how pleafing would it be to those who fhall read the furprizing Revolutions in your Story , to be made acquainted . with your ordinary Life and De- portment ? How pleafing would it be to hear ...
... most , unobserved by greater Writers . YET how pleafing would it be to those who fhall read the furprizing Revolutions in your Story , to be made acquainted . with your ordinary Life and De- portment ? How pleafing would it be to hear ...
Pagina 142
... Year of Life wherein the most able and fortunate Captain , before your Time , declared he had lived e- nough both to Nature and to Glory ; and your Grace may 2 make • make that Reflection with much more Juftice . He spoke The Dedication .
... Year of Life wherein the most able and fortunate Captain , before your Time , declared he had lived e- nough both to Nature and to Glory ; and your Grace may 2 make • make that Reflection with much more Juftice . He spoke The Dedication .
Pagina 153
... most happily paired in the Yoke of Wedlock . ' would recommend the Example of an Acquaintance of ours to your Imitation ; fhe is the most negligent and ' fashionable Wife in the World ; fhe is hardly ever seen ' in the fame Place with ...
... most happily paired in the Yoke of Wedlock . ' would recommend the Example of an Acquaintance of ours to your Imitation ; fhe is the most negligent and ' fashionable Wife in the World ; fhe is hardly ever seen ' in the fame Place with ...
Pagina 155
... most humble Servant , Mary Home . Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , you OU have no Goodness in the World , and are not in Earnest in any Thing you fay that is ferious , if do not fend me a plain Anfwer to this : I happened fome Days paft to be at ...
... most humble Servant , Mary Home . Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , you OU have no Goodness in the World , and are not in Earnest in any Thing you fay that is ferious , if do not fend me a plain Anfwer to this : I happened fome Days paft to be at ...
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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.