The Spectator, Volume 4Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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Page 45
... Several that are in this refpect unequally yoked , and uneafy for life , with a person of a particu- lar character , might have been pleafed and happy with a perfon of a contrary one , notwithstanding they are both perhaps equally ...
... Several that are in this refpect unequally yoked , and uneafy for life , with a person of a particu- lar character , might have been pleafed and happy with a perfon of a contrary one , notwithstanding they are both perhaps equally ...
Page 90
... several characters of Homer , a certain dignity as well as novelty , which adapts them in a more pecu- liar manner to the nature of an heroick poem . Though at the fame time , to give them the greater variety , he has described a Vulcan ...
... several characters of Homer , a certain dignity as well as novelty , which adapts them in a more pecu- liar manner to the nature of an heroick poem . Though at the fame time , to give them the greater variety , he has described a Vulcan ...
Page 91
... several natural incidents in the Part of Afcanius ; as that of Dido cannot be fufficiently ad- mired . I do not fee any thing new or particular in Tur- nus . Pallas and Evander are remote copies of Hector and Priam , as Laufus and ...
... several natural incidents in the Part of Afcanius ; as that of Dido cannot be fufficiently ad- mired . I do not fee any thing new or particular in Tur- nus . Pallas and Evander are remote copies of Hector and Priam , as Laufus and ...
Page 112
... several heads , to give particular inftances out of the poem which is now before us of beauties and imperfections which may be observed under each of them , as also of fuch other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them ...
... several heads , to give particular inftances out of the poem which is now before us of beauties and imperfections which may be observed under each of them , as also of fuch other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them ...
Page 122
... Several of these little hollows were ftuffed with innumerable forts of trifles , which I fhall forbear giving any particular account of , and fhall therefore only take notice of what lay firft and uppermoft , which , upon our unfolding ...
... Several of these little hollows were ftuffed with innumerable forts of trifles , which I fhall forbear giving any particular account of , and fhall therefore only take notice of what lay firft and uppermoft , which , upon our unfolding ...
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