The Spectator, Volume 6Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... circumstances that are both credible and astonishing ; or , as the French critics choose to phrase it , the fable should be filled with the probable and the marvellous . This rule is as fine and just as any in Aristotle's whole Art of ...
... circumstances that are both credible and astonishing ; or , as the French critics choose to phrase it , the fable should be filled with the probable and the marvellous . This rule is as fine and just as any in Aristotle's whole Art of ...
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Alexander Chalmers. which fills the poems both of Homer and Virgil with such circumstances as are wonderful but not ... circumstance , Polydorus tells a story from the root of the myrtle , that the barba- rous inhabitants of the country ...
Alexander Chalmers. which fills the poems both of Homer and Virgil with such circumstances as are wonderful but not ... circumstance , Polydorus tells a story from the root of the myrtle , that the barba- rous inhabitants of the country ...
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... circumstance , fills the mind of the reader with as surprising and glo- rious an idea as any that arises in the whole poem . He looks down into that vast hollow of the universe with the eye , or ( as Milton calls it in his first book ) ...
... circumstance , fills the mind of the reader with as surprising and glo- rious an idea as any that arises in the whole poem . He looks down into that vast hollow of the universe with the eye , or ( as Milton calls it in his first book ) ...
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... circumstances , that the reader can scarce forbear fancying himself em- ployed on the same distant view of it : ' Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence , though but reflected shines ; That place is earth ...
... circumstances , that the reader can scarce forbear fancying himself em- ployed on the same distant view of it : ' Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence , though but reflected shines ; That place is earth ...
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... circumstances that give an agreeable surprise to the reader , and are devised with great art , to connect that ... circumstance of the same nature ; as his starting up in his own form is wonderfully fine , both in the literal description ...
... circumstances that give an agreeable surprise to the reader , and are devised with great art , to connect that ... circumstance of the same nature ; as his starting up in his own form is wonderfully fine , both in the literal description ...
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Page 200 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally: and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 227 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 88 - Not distant far from thence, a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved, Pure as the expanse of Heaven: I thither went, With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky.
Page 319 - The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 284 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 259 - Thy suppliant I beg, and clasp thy knees ; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress, My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace...
Page 68 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all, And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Page 228 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 102 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 286 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.