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Laudis amore tumes ? sunt certa piacula , que te Ter purè leéto poterunt recreare
libello . Hor . T H E Soul considered abstractedly from its Passions , is of a remiss
and sedentary Nature , flow in its Refolves , and languishing in its Executions .
Laudis amore tumes ? sunt certa piacula , que te Ter purè leéto poterunt recreare
libello . Hor . T H E Soul considered abstractedly from its Passions , is of a remiss
and sedentary Nature , flow in its Refolves , and languishing in its Executions .
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Many indeed have given over their Pursuits after Fame , but that has proceeded
either from the Disappointments they have met in it , or from their Experience of
the little Pleasure which attends it , or from the better Informations or natural ...
Many indeed have given over their Pursuits after Fame , but that has proceeded
either from the Disappointments they have met in it , or from their Experience of
the little Pleasure which attends it , or from the better Informations or natural ...
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SECONDLY , Because many of those Actions , which are apt to procure Fame ,
are not in their Nature conducive to this our ultimate Happiness . THIRDLY ;
Because if we should allow the same Actions to be the proper Instruments , both
of ...
SECONDLY , Because many of those Actions , which are apt to procure Fame ,
are not in their Nature conducive to this our ultimate Happiness . THIRDLY ;
Because if we should allow the same Actions to be the proper Instruments , both
of ...
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It is observed among Birds , that Nature has lavished ! all her Ornaments upon
the Male , who very often appears in a most beautiful Head - dress : Whether it be
a Crest , a Comb , a Tuft of Feathers , or a natural little Plume , érected like ...
It is observed among Birds , that Nature has lavished ! all her Ornaments upon
the Male , who very often appears in a most beautiful Head - dress : Whether it be
a Crest , a Comb , a Tuft of Feathers , or a natural little Plume , érected like ...
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THERE is nothing in Nature fo irksom as general Discourses , especially when
they turn chiefly upon Words . For this Reason I shall wave the Discusion of that
point which was started some Years fince , whether Milton ' s Paradise Lost may
be ...
THERE is nothing in Nature fo irksom as general Discourses , especially when
they turn chiefly upon Words . For this Reason I shall wave the Discusion of that
point which was started some Years fince , whether Milton ' s Paradise Lost may
be ...
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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...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Spectator, Volumen4 The Spectator |
| Edición | 12 |
| Editor | Tonson, 1738 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 4 Mar 2008 |
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