The Spectator, Volumen4Tonson, 1738 |
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Página 15
... Speaking of the infipid Smoothness which fome Readers are fo much in Love with , he has the following Verses . Thefe Equal Syllables alone require , Tho oft the Ear the open Vowels tire , While Expletives their feeble Aid do join , And ...
... Speaking of the infipid Smoothness which fome Readers are fo much in Love with , he has the following Verses . Thefe Equal Syllables alone require , Tho oft the Ear the open Vowels tire , While Expletives their feeble Aid do join , And ...
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... speak of Salutation at Church , I must take no- tice that feveral of my Correfpondents have importuned me to confider that Subject , and fettle the Point of De- corum in that Particular . I do not pretend to be the best Courtier in the ...
... speak of Salutation at Church , I must take no- tice that feveral of my Correfpondents have importuned me to confider that Subject , and fettle the Point of De- corum in that Particular . I do not pretend to be the best Courtier in the ...
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... speak in relation to his Understanding ; whereas when we fay of a Woman , fhe has a fine , a long or a good Head , we speak only in relation to her Commode . It is obferved among Birds , that Nature has lavished all her Ornaments upon ...
... speak in relation to his Understanding ; whereas when we fay of a Woman , fhe has a fine , a long or a good Head , we speak only in relation to her Commode . It is obferved among Birds , that Nature has lavished all her Ornaments upon ...
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... Speaking and Thinking , and always ( if it can be done without Pre- judice to the Senfe ) omit the many Compliments and Ap- plaufes which are ufually beftowed upon me . BESIDES the two Advantages above - mentioned , which I receive from ...
... Speaking and Thinking , and always ( if it can be done without Pre- judice to the Senfe ) omit the many Compliments and Ap- plaufes which are ufually beftowed upon me . BESIDES the two Advantages above - mentioned , which I receive from ...
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... speaking of : You fhall have an old rich Man often receive Scrawls from the feveral Quarters of the Town , with Descriptions of the new Wares in their Hands , if he will please to fend Word when he will be waited on . This Interview is ...
... speaking of : You fhall have an old rich Man often receive Scrawls from the feveral Quarters of the Town , with Descriptions of the new Wares in their Hands , if he will please to fend Word when he will be waited on . This Interview is ...
Términos y frases comunes
Action admired Æneid againſt agreeable alfo Anſwer Beauty becauſe befides Behaviour Cafe Character Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation Criticks defcribed Defcription Defign Defire Difcourfe difcovered Drefs Enville Fable faid fame feems feen felf felves feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend ftill fuch fufficient give greateſt Happineſs himſelf Homer Honour Houfe Houſe humble Servant ibid Iliad juft kind Lady laft laſt lefs likewife Loft look Love Mafter Mankind manner Marriage Meaſure Milton Mind Miſtreſs moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary Number obferved Occafion Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon Place pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poem Poet poffible prefent publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon Reflexion reprefented ſelf Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe Thoughts tion underſtand uſe Virgil Virtue whofe Woman World young
Pasajes populares
Página 67 - Roman empire, has described the birth of its great rival, the Carthaginian commonwealth : Milton, with the like art in his poem on the fall of man, has related the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies.
Página 70 - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.
Página 134 - The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by common use. For this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages, have a great advantage over those which are written in languages that are now spoken. Were there any mean phrases or idioms in Virgil...
Página 205 - Being, he frequently confesses his omnipotence, that being the perfection he was forced to allow him, and the only consideration which could support his pride under the shame of his defeat. Nor...
Página 110 - ... other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them. This I thought fit to...
Página 235 - Death produces those monsters and hell-hounds which from time to time enter into their mother, and tear the bowels of her who gave them birth. These are the terrors of an evil conscience, and the proper fruits of Sin, which naturally rise from the apprehensions of Death.
Página 137 - Y, when it precedes a vowel. This, and some other innovations in the measure of his verse, has varied his numbers in such a manner, as makes them incapable of satiating the ear, and cloying the reader, which the same uniform measure would certainly have done, and which the perpetual returns of rhyme never fail to do in long narrative poems.
Página 88 - There is in these several characters of Homer, a certain dignity as well as novelty, which adapts them in a more peculiar manner to the nature of an heroic poem. Though at the same time, to give them the greater variety, he has described a Vulcan, that is a buffoon among his gods, and a Thersites among his mortals.
Página 112 - I shall show more at large in another paper ; though considering how all the poets of the age in which he writ were infected with this wrong way of thinking, he is rather to be admired that he did not give more into it, than that he did sometimes comply with the vicious taste which still prevails so much among modern writers.
Página 151 - A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he...