The Spectator, Volumen4Tonson, 1738 |
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... Pleasure and Emotion . I am your Friend , and wish you Happiness , but am forry to fee by the Air of your Letter that there are a Set of Women who are got into the Common - Place Rallery ⚫ of every Thing that is fober , decent , and ...
... Pleasure and Emotion . I am your Friend , and wish you Happiness , but am forry to fee by the Air of your Letter that there are a Set of Women who are got into the Common - Place Rallery ⚫ of every Thing that is fober , decent , and ...
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... Pleasure in croffing our Incli- nations , and disappointing us in what our Hearts are most fet upon . When therefore they have discovered the pas- fionate Defire of Fame in the Ambitious Man ( as no Tem- per of Mind is more apt to fhew ...
... Pleasure in croffing our Incli- nations , and disappointing us in what our Hearts are most fet upon . When therefore they have discovered the pas- fionate Defire of Fame in the Ambitious Man ( as no Tem- per of Mind is more apt to fhew ...
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... Pleasure in contradicting the common Reports of Fame , and in fpreading abroad the Weakneffes of an exalted Character . They publish their ill - natur'd Difcoveries with a fecret Pride , and applaud themselves for the Singularity of ...
... Pleasure in contradicting the common Reports of Fame , and in fpreading abroad the Weakneffes of an exalted Character . They publish their ill - natur'd Difcoveries with a fecret Pride , and applaud themselves for the Singularity of ...
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... Pleasure as makes a Man reflefs and uneafy under it ; and which does not fo much fatisfy the prefent Thirft , as it excites fresh Defires , and fets the Soul on new Enterprizes . For how few ambitious Men are there , who have got as ...
... Pleasure as makes a Man reflefs and uneafy under it ; and which does not fo much fatisfy the prefent Thirft , as it excites fresh Defires , and fets the Soul on new Enterprizes . For how few ambitious Men are there , who have got as ...
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... Pleasure which attends it , or from the better Informations or natural Coldness of Old Age ; but feldom from a full Satisfaction and Ac- quiefcence in their prefent Enjoyments of it . NOR is Fame only unfatisfying in it felf , but the ...
... Pleasure which attends it , or from the better Informations or natural Coldness of Old Age ; but feldom from a full Satisfaction and Ac- quiefcence in their prefent Enjoyments of it . NOR is Fame only unfatisfying in it felf , but the ...
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...