The Spectator, Volum 4Tonson, 1738 |
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Pàgina 21
... Virtues are not obfcured by the Ig- norance , Prejudice or Envy of their Beholders ? Some Men cannot difcern between a noble and a mean Action . Others are apt to attribute them to fome falfe End or In- tention ; and others purposely ...
... Virtues are not obfcured by the Ig- norance , Prejudice or Envy of their Beholders ? Some Men cannot difcern between a noble and a mean Action . Others are apt to attribute them to fome falfe End or In- tention ; and others purposely ...
Pàgina 27
... Virtues . WE may further observe , that fuch a Man will be more grieved for the Lofs of Fame , than he could have been pleafed with the Enjoyment of it . For tho ' the Prefence of this imaginary Good cannot make us happy , the Absence ...
... Virtues . WE may further observe , that fuch a Man will be more grieved for the Lofs of Fame , than he could have been pleafed with the Enjoyment of it . For tho ' the Prefence of this imaginary Good cannot make us happy , the Absence ...
Pàgina 30
... Virtues which want an Opportunity of exerting and fhewing themselves in Actions . Every Virtue re- quires Time and Place , a proper Object and a fit Con- juncture of Circumftances , for the due Exercife of it . A State of Poverty ...
... Virtues which want an Opportunity of exerting and fhewing themselves in Actions . Every Virtue re- quires Time and Place , a proper Object and a fit Con- juncture of Circumftances , for the due Exercife of it . A State of Poverty ...
Pàgina 31
... Virtues , and can only fhew us what Habits are in the Soul , without difcovering the Degree and Perfection of fuch ... Virtue in the Soul , and keeps a watchful Eye over it in all its Progrefs , ' till it has received every Grace it is ...
... Virtues , and can only fhew us what Habits are in the Soul , without difcovering the Degree and Perfection of fuch ... Virtue in the Soul , and keeps a watchful Eye over it in all its Progrefs , ' till it has received every Grace it is ...
Pàgina 44
... Virtue and good Senfe , an agreeable Friend ; Love and Conftancy , a good Wife or Husband . Where we meet one Perfon with all these Accomplishments , we find an hundred without any one of them . The World , notwithstanding , is more ...
... Virtue and good Senfe , an agreeable Friend ; Love and Conftancy , a good Wife or Husband . Where we meet one Perfon with all these Accomplishments , we find an hundred without any one of them . The World , notwithstanding , is more ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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
Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 110 - ... other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them. This I thought fit to...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...