The Spectator, Volumen4Tonson, 1738 |
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Página 142
... Persons fo happily distinguished , that by providing for the particular Intereft of their feveral Ranks , they are providing for the whole Body of the People ; or in other Words , when there is no Part of the People that has not a ...
... Persons fo happily distinguished , that by providing for the particular Intereft of their feveral Ranks , they are providing for the whole Body of the People ; or in other Words , when there is no Part of the People that has not a ...
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... Persons are all of them laudable , and their Misfortunes arise rather from unguard- ed Virtue than Propenfity to Vice . The Town has an Opportunity of doing it felf Juftice in fupporting the Re prefentations of Paffion , Sorrow ...
... Persons are all of them laudable , and their Misfortunes arise rather from unguard- ed Virtue than Propenfity to Vice . The Town has an Opportunity of doing it felf Juftice in fupporting the Re prefentations of Paffion , Sorrow ...
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... Person , and Decency of Behavi our , add infinite Weight to what is pronounced by any , one . ' Tis the want of this that often makes the Rebukes and Advice of old rigid Perfons of no Effect , and leave a Difpleafure in the Minds of ...
... Person , and Decency of Behavi our , add infinite Weight to what is pronounced by any , one . ' Tis the want of this that often makes the Rebukes and Advice of old rigid Perfons of no Effect , and leave a Difpleafure in the Minds of ...
Página 163
... Reason above - mentioned , namely that a Series of Good Fortune fuppofes a prudent Management in the Perfon Person whom it befalls , that not only Sylla the No 293 . 163 . The SPECTATOR No 293. Tuesday, February 5. ...
... Reason above - mentioned , namely that a Series of Good Fortune fuppofes a prudent Management in the Perfon Person whom it befalls , that not only Sylla the No 293 . 163 . The SPECTATOR No 293. Tuesday, February 5. ...
Página 164
Person whom it befalls , that not only Sylla the Dictator , but feveral of the Roman Emperors , as is ftill to be feen upon their Medals , among their other Titles , gave them- felves that of Felix or Fortunate . The Heathens , indeed ...
Person whom it befalls , that not only Sylla the Dictator , but feveral of the Roman Emperors , as is ftill to be feen upon their Medals , among their other Titles , gave them- felves that of Felix or Fortunate . The Heathens , indeed ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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...