The Spectator, Band 4Tonson, 1738 |
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... taken notice of . It is where Sisyphus is reprefented lifting his Stone up the Hill , which is no fooner carried to the Top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the Bottom . This double Motion of the Stone is admirably described in the ...
... taken notice of . It is where Sisyphus is reprefented lifting his Stone up the Hill , which is no fooner carried to the Top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the Bottom . This double Motion of the Stone is admirably described in the ...
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... taken down and humbled in his Reputation , and in fome measure reduced to our own Rank , who had fo far raised himself above us in the Reports and Opinions of Mankind . THUS - THUS we fee how many dark and intricate Motives 24 N ° 256 ...
... taken down and humbled in his Reputation , and in fome measure reduced to our own Rank , who had fo far raised himself above us in the Reports and Opinions of Mankind . THUS - THUS we fee how many dark and intricate Motives 24 N ° 256 ...
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... taken Pursuit after Fame , or through human İnfirmi- ty , any falfe Step be made in the more momentous Con- cerns of Life , the whole Scheme of ambitious Designs is broken and difappointed . The fmaller Stains and Ble mishes may die ...
... taken Pursuit after Fame , or through human İnfirmi- ty , any falfe Step be made in the more momentous Con- cerns of Life , the whole Scheme of ambitious Designs is broken and difappointed . The fmaller Stains and Ble mishes may die ...
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... taken up as to forget his old Friend . With a Man , who is not fo well formed for Courtship and elegant Be- haviour , fuch a Gentleman as this fe dom finds his Ac- count in the Return of his Compliments , but he will still go on , for ...
... taken up as to forget his old Friend . With a Man , who is not fo well formed for Courtship and elegant Be- haviour , fuch a Gentleman as this fe dom finds his Ac- count in the Return of his Compliments , but he will still go on , for ...
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... taken more than ordinary Care not to give Offence to those who appear in the higher Figures of Life . I would not make my felf merry even with a Piece of Pafteboard that is invetted with a publick Cha- racter ; for which Reason I have ...
... taken more than ordinary Care not to give Offence to those who appear in the higher Figures of Life . I would not make my felf merry even with a Piece of Pafteboard that is invetted with a publick Cha- racter ; for which Reason I have ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 110 - ... other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them. This I thought fit to...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...