The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 4George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Page 56
... playhouse with Wilkes and Colley Cibber , of whom the reader may find a particular account in Cibber's Apology for his own Life . † Æneid , i . 85 . It is certain the trunk - maker has saved many 56 235 . SPECTATOR .
... playhouse with Wilkes and Colley Cibber , of whom the reader may find a particular account in Cibber's Apology for his own Life . † Æneid , i . 85 . It is certain the trunk - maker has saved many 56 235 . SPECTATOR .
Page 202
... Æneid , and Paradise Lost , in these three several lights . Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Ho- race has observed . Had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the ...
... Æneid , and Paradise Lost , in these three several lights . Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Ho- race has observed . Had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the ...
Page 203
... Æneid also labours in this particular , and has Episodes which may be looked upon as excrescences rather than as parts of the action . On the contrary , the poem which we have now under our considera- tion , hath no other episodes than ...
... Æneid also labours in this particular , and has Episodes which may be looked upon as excrescences rather than as parts of the action . On the contrary , the poem which we have now under our considera- tion , hath no other episodes than ...
Page 205
... Æneid , or that in the Iliad , are not of this nature ; nor to reprehend Virgil's si- mile of the top , and many other of the same kind in the Iliad , as liable to any censure in this particular ; but I think we may say , without ...
... Æneid , or that in the Iliad , are not of this nature ; nor to reprehend Virgil's si- mile of the top , and many other of the same kind in the Iliad , as liable to any censure in this particular ; but I think we may say , without ...
Page 206
... Æneid , were in themselves ex- ceeding short , but are so beautifully extended and diversified by the invention of episodes , and the ma- chinery of gods , with the like poetical ornaments , that they make up an agreeable story ...
... Æneid , were in themselves ex- ceeding short , but are so beautifully extended and diversified by the invention of episodes , and the ma- chinery of gods , with the like poetical ornaments , that they make up an agreeable story ...
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