The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volumen6J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... Greek verse at the end of it , ( No. 265 ) I must confess I was a little startled , at its popping upon me so unexpectedly . However , I covered my confusion as well as I could ; and after having muttered two or three hard words to ...
... Greek verse at the end of it , ( No. 265 ) I must confess I was a little startled , at its popping upon me so unexpectedly . However , I covered my confusion as well as I could ; and after having muttered two or three hard words to ...
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... Greek poet . In short , there is neither that variety nor novelty in the persons of the Eneid which we meet with in those of the Iliad . If we look into the characters of Milton , we shall find that he has introduced all the variety his ...
... Greek poet . In short , there is neither that variety nor novelty in the persons of the Eneid which we meet with in those of the Iliad . If we look into the characters of Milton , we shall find that he has introduced all the variety his ...
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... Greek , and Æneas the remote founder of Rome . By this means their countrymen , whom they principally proposed to themselves for their readers , were particularly at- tentive to all the parts of their story , and sympa . thized with ...
... Greek , and Æneas the remote founder of Rome . By this means their countrymen , whom they principally proposed to themselves for their readers , were particularly at- tentive to all the parts of their story , and sympa . thized with ...
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... in the Greek tongue . He entertains her frequent- ly in the shop with discourses of the beauties and excellencies of that language , and repeats to her several 48 No. 278 . THE SPECTATOR . No. 278. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. ...
... in the Greek tongue . He entertains her frequent- ly in the shop with discourses of the beauties and excellencies of that language , and repeats to her several 48 No. 278 . THE SPECTATOR . No. 278. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. ...
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... Greek , which she vents upon all occasions . She told me some days ago that whereas I use some Latin in- scriptions in my shop , she advised me , with a great deal of concern , to have them changed into Greek , it being a language less ...
... Greek , which she vents upon all occasions . She told me some days ago that whereas I use some Latin in- scriptions in my shop , she advised me , with a great deal of concern , to have them changed into Greek , it being a language less ...
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Página 177 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 179 - To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
Página 217 - Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Página 215 - Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence...
Página 177 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 248 - Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all height, bent down his eye, His own works, and their works, at once to view : About him all the sanctities of heaven Stood thick as stars, and from his sight received Beatitude past utterance...
Página 247 - The passions which they are designed to raise, are a divine love and religious fear. The particular beauty of the speeches in the third book consists in that shortness and perspicuity of style, in which the poet has couched the greatest mysteries of Christianity, and drawn together, in a regular scheme, the whole dispensation of Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination...
Página 248 - Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious ; in him all his Father shone Substantially express'd : and in his face Divine compassion visibly appear'd, Love without end, and without measure grace...
Página 38 - The skins of the forehead were extremely tough and thick, and, what Very much surprised us, had not in them any single blood-vessel that we were able to discover, either with or without our glasses; from whence we concluded, that the party when alive must have been entirely deprived of the faculty of blushing.
Página 55 - The loves of Dido and ^Eneas are only copies of what has passed between other persons. Adam and Eve, before the fall, are a different species from that of mankind, who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention, and the most exquisite judgment, could have filled their conversation and behaviour with so many circumstances during their state of innocence.