The Spectator, Volum 4Tonson, 1738 |
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Pàgina 10
... Woman turned of thirty , and am on the Obfervation a little ; therefore if you or your Correspondent had confulted me in your Difcourfe on the Eye , I could have told you , that the Eye of Leonora is flily watchful while it looks ...
... Woman turned of thirty , and am on the Obfervation a little ; therefore if you or your Correspondent had confulted me in your Difcourfe on the Eye , I could have told you , that the Eye of Leonora is flily watchful while it looks ...
Pàgina 11
... Women are bet- ter qualified to fucceed in Oratory than the Men , and ' believe this is to be refolved into natural Causes . You have mentioned only the Volubility of their Tongue ; but what do you think of the filent Flattery of their ...
... Women are bet- ter qualified to fucceed in Oratory than the Men , and ' believe this is to be refolved into natural Causes . You have mentioned only the Volubility of their Tongue ; but what do you think of the filent Flattery of their ...
Pàgina 12
... Woman there in finer Clothes than her felf : Thefe are Arts of Perfuafion purely Feminine , and which a tender Heart cannot refift . What I would therefore defire of you , is , to prevail with your Friend who has promifed to diffect a ...
... Woman there in finer Clothes than her felf : Thefe are Arts of Perfuafion purely Feminine , and which a tender Heart cannot refift . What I would therefore defire of you , is , to prevail with your Friend who has promifed to diffect a ...
Pàgina 16
... Women of Quality have entertained , to the Hazard of their Characters , and the certain Misfortune of their Lives . The firft of the fol- lowing Letters may belt reprefent the Faults I would now point at , and the Answer to it the ...
... Women of Quality have entertained , to the Hazard of their Characters , and the certain Misfortune of their Lives . The firft of the fol- lowing Letters may belt reprefent the Faults I would now point at , and the Answer to it the ...
Pàgina 17
... Woman : " Tis a little Infolence in me perhaps , to advise a Matron ; but I am fo afraid you'll make fo filly a Figure as a fond Wife , that I cannot help warning you not to appear in any publick Places with your Husband , and never to ...
... Woman : " Tis a little Infolence in me perhaps , to advise a Matron ; but I am fo afraid you'll make fo filly a Figure as a fond Wife , that I cannot help warning you not to appear in any publick Places with your Husband , and never to ...
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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...