The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... is heaved up by feveral Spondees intermixed with proper Breathing- places , and at last trundles down in a continued Line of Dactyles . Kai Καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον , κρατέρ ̓ ἄλγὲ ἔχοντα , Λάαν No. 253. The SPECTATOR . 7.
... is heaved up by feveral Spondees intermixed with proper Breathing- places , and at last trundles down in a continued Line of Dactyles . Kai Καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον , κρατέρ ̓ ἄλγὲ ἔχοντα , Λάαν No. 253. The SPECTATOR . 7.
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... last Quarter's Payment , fhe threatens me every Day to arreft me ; and proceeds fo far as to tell me , that if I do not do her Juftice , I fhall die in a Jail . To this fhe adds , when her Paffion will let her argue calmly , that fhe ...
... last Quarter's Payment , fhe threatens me every Day to arreft me ; and proceeds fo far as to tell me , that if I do not do her Juftice , I fhall die in a Jail . To this fhe adds , when her Paffion will let her argue calmly , that fhe ...
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... last Saturday's Pa per , I fhall enter on the Subject of this without further Preface , and remark the feveral Defects which appear in the Fable , theCharacters , the Sentiments , and the Language of Milton's Paradise Loft ; not doubt ...
... last Saturday's Pa per , I fhall enter on the Subject of this without further Preface , and remark the feveral Defects which appear in the Fable , theCharacters , the Sentiments , and the Language of Milton's Paradise Loft ; not doubt ...
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... much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book , where speaking of is 172 The SPECTATOR . No. 297 . FROM what has been here observed it appears, that ...
... much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book , where speaking of is 172 The SPECTATOR . No. 297 . FROM what has been here observed it appears, that ...
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... last Place , we confider the Language of this great Poet , we must allow what I have hinted in a for- mer Paper , that it is often too much laboured , and fome- times obfcured by old Words , Tranfpofitions , and Foreign Idioms ...
... last Place , we confider the Language of this great Poet , we must allow what I have hinted in a for- mer Paper , that it is often too much laboured , and fome- times obfcured by old Words , Tranfpofitions , and Foreign Idioms ...
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Action admired Æneid againſt agreeable alfo anſwer Beauty becauſe befides Behaviour beſt Character Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation Criticks defcribed Defcription Defign Defire Difcourfe diſcover Drefs Fable faid fame fecond feems felf felves feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend ftill fuch fufficient give greateſt Happineſs herſelf himſelf Honour Houfe Houſe humble Servant Iliad infert itſelf juft Kind Lady laft laſt lefs likewife Loft look Love Mafter Mankind Manner Marriage Meaſure Milton Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature Number obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon Place pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poem Poet poffible prefent publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon Refpect reprefented Senfe Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves theſe Thing thofe thoſe Thoughts thouſand underſtand uſe Virgil Virtue whofe Woman World young
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Страница 201 - In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their similes so many short episodes ; to which you may add, if you please, that their metaphors are so many short similes.
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