The Spectator. ...S. Buckley; and J. Tonson, 1712 |
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... House in the Country , and confin'd to the Conversation of a fober Husband and aukward Chambermaid . For Variety I fup- pose you may entertain your felf with Madam in her Grogram Gown , the Spoufe of your Parifh Vicar , who has by this ...
... House in the Country , and confin'd to the Conversation of a fober Husband and aukward Chambermaid . For Variety I fup- pose you may entertain your felf with Madam in her Grogram Gown , the Spoufe of your Parifh Vicar , who has by this ...
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... houses , there is but one that seems to carry any Weight with it , viz . That fuch a Poft would come too near ' the Nature of a Monopoly . Now , Sir , be- cause I would have all Sorts of People made eafy , and being willing to have more ...
... houses , there is but one that seems to carry any Weight with it , viz . That fuch a Poft would come too near ' the Nature of a Monopoly . Now , Sir , be- cause I would have all Sorts of People made eafy , and being willing to have more ...
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... House opens you will accept the Liberty of it for the Trouble you have received • from , SIR , P. S. I have Affurances Tour humble Servant , that the Trunk - maker Ralph Crotchet . will declare for us . Mr. SPECTATOR , ' WE E whofe ...
... House opens you will accept the Liberty of it for the Trouble you have received • from , SIR , P. S. I have Affurances Tour humble Servant , that the Trunk - maker Ralph Crotchet . will declare for us . Mr. SPECTATOR , ' WE E whofe ...
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... House , with an Account of the feveral Authors of the vocal as well as inftrumental Mufick for each Night ; the Money to be paid at the Receipt of the Tickets , at Mr. Charles Lillie's . It will , we hope , Sir , be easily allow- ed ...
... House , with an Account of the feveral Authors of the vocal as well as inftrumental Mufick for each Night ; the Money to be paid at the Receipt of the Tickets , at Mr. Charles Lillie's . It will , we hope , Sir , be easily allow- ed ...
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... House with me , that I never did any Injury to in my whole Life ; and she is always railing at me to those that she knows I will tell me of it . Don't you think she is in Love with me ? or would you have me break my Mind yet or not ? Mr ...
... House with me , that I never did any Injury to in my whole Life ; and she is always railing at me to those that she knows I will tell me of it . Don't you think she is in Love with me ? or would you have me break my Mind yet or not ? Mr ...
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381 psl. - ... of incarnation and redemption, (which naturally grow up in a poem that treats of the fall of man) with great energy of expression, and in a clearer and stronger light than I ever met with in any other writer.
196 psl. - Aristotle is what agrees with the genius of the Greek language more than with that of any other tongue, and is therefore more used by Homer than by any other poet.
159 psl. - ... carefully to be avoided. The first are such as are affected and unnatural ; the second such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : he has none of those trifling...
12 psl. - I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world, I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought, which many young women of quality have entertained, to the hazard of their characters, and the certain misfortune of their lives. The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at, and the answer to it, the temper of mind in a contrary character.
194 psl. - It is not therefore sufficient that the language of an epic poem be perspicuous, unless it be also sublime. To this end, it ought to deviate from the common forms and ordinary phrases of speech.
261 psl. - Paper to shew, that this kind of Implex Fable, wherein the Event is unhappy, is more apt to affect an Audience than that of the first kind...
87 psl. - THERE is nothing in nature so irksome as general discourses, especially when they turn chiefly upon words. For this reason, I shall wave the discussion of that point which was started some years since, whether Milton's Paradise Lost may be called an heroic poem? Those who will not give it that title may call it, if they please, a divine poem. It will be sufficient to its perfection, if it has in it all the beauties of the...
232 psl. - Apollo, who received them very graciously, and resolved to make the author a suitable return for the trouble he had been at in collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just threshed out of the sheaf.
221 psl. - Tartary, being arrived at the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn or caravansary. Having looked about him for some time, he entered into a long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and spread his carpet, in order to repose himself upon it, after the manner of the eastern nations. He had not been long in this posture before he was discovered by some of the guards, who asked him what was his business in that place?
93 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.