The Spectator, 4 tomasTonson, 1738 |
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... Æneid , in the Beauties which are effential to that kind of Wri- ting . The first thing to be confidered in an Epic Poem , is the Fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the Action which it relates is more or less fo . This ...
... Æneid , in the Beauties which are effential to that kind of Wri- ting . The first thing to be confidered in an Epic Poem , is the Fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the Action which it relates is more or less fo . This ...
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... Æneid . I do not remember that Homer any where falls into the Faults above - mentioned , which were indeed the false Refinements of later Ages . Milton , it must be confeft , has sometimes erred in this refpect , as I fhall fhew more at ...
... Æneid . I do not remember that Homer any where falls into the Faults above - mentioned , which were indeed the false Refinements of later Ages . Milton , it must be confeft , has sometimes erred in this refpect , as I fhall fhew more at ...
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... Æneid , and therefore an Heathen could not form a higher Notion of a Poem than one of that kind , which they call an Heroic . Whether Milton's is not of a fublimer Nature I will not prefume to determine : It is fufficient that I fhew ...
... Æneid , and therefore an Heathen could not form a higher Notion of a Poem than one of that kind , which they call an Heroic . Whether Milton's is not of a fublimer Nature I will not prefume to determine : It is fufficient that I fhew ...
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... Æneid , knows very well , that though they agree in their Opinions of the great Beauties in those Poems , they have nevertheless each of them difcovered feveral Mafter - Strokes , which have escaped the Observation of the reft . In the ...
... Æneid , knows very well , that though they agree in their Opinions of the great Beauties in those Poems , they have nevertheless each of them difcovered feveral Mafter - Strokes , which have escaped the Observation of the reft . In the ...
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... Æneid , does not only infert it as a Poetical Embellishment , like the Au- thors above - mentioned ; but makes an artful use of it for the proper carrying on of his Fable , and for the break- ing off the Combat between the two Warriors ...
... Æneid , does not only infert it as a Poetical Embellishment , like the Au- thors above - mentioned ; but makes an artful use of it for the proper carrying on of his Fable , and for the break- ing off the Combat between the two Warriors ...
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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
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67 psl. - 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.
70 psl. - 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.
134 psl. - 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...
205 psl. - 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...
110 psl. - ... other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them. This I thought fit to...
235 psl. - 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.
137 psl. - 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.
88 psl. - 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.
112 psl. - 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.
151 psl. - 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...