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Page 169
... Sentiments , and the Language of Milton's Paradise Loft ; not doubt- ing but the Reader will pardon me , if I alledge at the fame Time whatever may be faid for the Extenuation of fuch Defects . The firft Imperfection which I fhall ob ...
... Sentiments , and the Language of Milton's Paradise Loft ; not doubt- ing but the Reader will pardon me , if I alledge at the fame Time whatever may be faid for the Extenuation of fuch Defects . The firft Imperfection which I fhall ob ...
Page 172
... Sentiments , I think they are fome- times defective under the following Heads ; Firft , as there are several of them too much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book ...
... Sentiments , I think they are fome- times defective under the following Heads ; Firft , as there are several of them too much Pointed , and fome that de- generate even into Punns . Of this last Kind I am afraid is that in the First Book ...
Page 173
... Sentiments , is an unneceffary Oftentation of Learning , which likewise occurs very frequently . It is certain that both Homer and Virgil were Masters of all the Learning of their Times , but it fhews itself in their Works after an ...
... Sentiments , is an unneceffary Oftentation of Learning , which likewise occurs very frequently . It is certain that both Homer and Virgil were Masters of all the Learning of their Times , but it fhews itself in their Works after an ...
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... Sentiment to exprefs , or else Violins , Voices , or any other Organs of Sound , afford an Entertainment very little above the Rattles of Children . It was from this Opinion of the Matter , that when Mr. Clayton had finished his Studies ...
... Sentiment to exprefs , or else Violins , Voices , or any other Organs of Sound , afford an Entertainment very little above the Rattles of Children . It was from this Opinion of the Matter , that when Mr. Clayton had finished his Studies ...
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... Sentiments of his Mind , as the Features of his Face . The Felicity is , when any one is fo happy as to find out and follow what is the proper Bent of his Genius , and turn all his Endeavours to exert himself according as that prompts ...
... Sentiments of his Mind , as the Features of his Face . The Felicity is , when any one is fo happy as to find out and follow what is the proper Bent of his Genius , and turn all his Endeavours to exert himself according as that prompts ...
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Page 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Page 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Page 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Page 194 - Moses in those books from whence our author drew his subject, and to the Holy Spirit who is therein represented as operating after a particular manner in the first production of nature.
Page 132 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Page 201 - In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their similes so many short episodes ; to which you may add, if you please, that their metaphors are so many short similes.
Page 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Page 250 - Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination, freewill and grace, as also the great points 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.
Page 197 - The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry, which rises in a great measure from its describing the places where they were worshipped, by those beautiful marks of rivers, so frequent among the ancient poets. The author had doubtless in this place Homer's catalogue of ships, and Virgil's list of warriors, in his view. The characters of Moloch and Belial...
Page 198 - Lucian relates concerning this river, viz. that this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; •which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises.