The Spectator, Volumen4Tonson, 1738 |
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... a great Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detrac- tion . This Paffion reigns more among bad Poets , than among any other Set of Men . AS AS there are none more ambitious of Fame , than 12 N ° 253 The SPECTATOR .
... a great Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detrac- tion . This Paffion reigns more among bad Poets , than among any other Set of Men . AS AS there are none more ambitious of Fame , than 12 N ° 253 The SPECTATOR .
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... Poet , without attacking the Reputation of all his Brothers in the Art . The Ignorance of the Moderns , the Scriblers of the Age , the Decay of Poetry , are the Topicks of De- traction , with which he makes his Entrance into the World ...
... Poet , without attacking the Reputation of all his Brothers in the Art . The Ignorance of the Moderns , the Scriblers of the Age , the Decay of Poetry , are the Topicks of De- traction , with which he makes his Entrance into the World ...
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... Poets of the Au- guftan Age . His Way of Expreffing and applying them , not his Invention of them , is what we are chiefly to admire . FOR this Reason I think there is nothing in the World fo tiresome as the Works of thofe Criticks who ...
... Poets of the Au- guftan Age . His Way of Expreffing and applying them , not his Invention of them , is what we are chiefly to admire . FOR this Reason I think there is nothing in the World fo tiresome as the Works of thofe Criticks who ...
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... Poet . The Reader may obferve the following Lines in the fame View . A needlefs Alexandrine ends the Song , That like a wounded Snake , drags its flow Length along ! And afterwards , ' Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence , The ...
... Poet . The Reader may obferve the following Lines in the fame View . A needlefs Alexandrine ends the Song , That like a wounded Snake , drags its flow Length along ! And afterwards , ' Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence , The ...
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... Poets is due to Milton ; and as I have drawn more Quotations out of him than from any other , I fhall enter into a regular Criti- cifm upon his Paradife Loft , which I fhall publish every Saturday ' till I have given my Thoughts upon ...
... Poets is due to Milton ; and as I have drawn more Quotations out of him than from any other , I fhall enter into a regular Criti- cifm upon his Paradife Loft , which I fhall publish every Saturday ' till I have given my Thoughts upon ...
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...