The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 3C. Dilly, 1798 |
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... original paffages . His fatiri- cal glances at Shakespear inftanced . His hags in the mafque of the Queens compared with Shakespear's Witches in Macbeth 156 LXXV . Review of Ben Jonfon's comedy of the Fox LXXVI . Review of the Samfon ...
... original paffages . His fatiri- cal glances at Shakespear inftanced . His hags in the mafque of the Queens compared with Shakespear's Witches in Macbeth 156 LXXV . Review of Ben Jonfon's comedy of the Fox LXXVI . Review of the Samfon ...
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... original formation , to guide their judgments and controul their actions ; but will this diminish the importance of revealed reli- gion ? Certainly not , unless he can prove one or both of the following pofitions ; viz . First , That ...
... original formation , to guide their judgments and controul their actions ; but will this diminish the importance of revealed reli- gion ? Certainly not , unless he can prove one or both of the following pofitions ; viz . First , That ...
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... original in the conception and prefervation of character : It does not reach the fublimity and majesty of its model , but it has in a great degree adopted the fimplicity , and entirely avoided the rufticity of Homer . Lucan and Claudian ...
... original in the conception and prefervation of character : It does not reach the fublimity and majesty of its model , but it has in a great degree adopted the fimplicity , and entirely avoided the rufticity of Homer . Lucan and Claudian ...
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... I may be allowed the expreffion ) under his feet , than Shakespear had : His fables in general are Homeric , and yet it does not follow that we we can pronounce for Shakespear that he is more original 108 THE OBSERVER . No. 69 %
... I may be allowed the expreffion ) under his feet , than Shakespear had : His fables in general are Homeric , and yet it does not follow that we we can pronounce for Shakespear that he is more original 108 THE OBSERVER . No. 69 %
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... original in his plots , for I understand that late researches have traced him in all , or nearly all : Both poets added fo much machinery and invention of their own in the conduct of their fables , that whatever might have been the ...
... original in his plots , for I understand that late researches have traced him in all , or nearly all : Both poets added fo much machinery and invention of their own in the conduct of their fables , that whatever might have been the ...
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Page 250 - Let her see him injured, but not provoked: Let her attend him to the tribunal, and consider the patience with which he endured the scoffs and reproaches of his enemies. Lead her to his cross, and let her view him in the agony of death, and hear his last prayer for his persecutors...
Page 71 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water : and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him : And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 71 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Page 159 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. THIRD WITCH. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches...
Page 160 - The whilst we bury all i' the ground. But first, see every foot be bare; And every knee. Hag. Yes, Dame, they are. 4 Charm. "Deep, 27 O deep we lay thee to sleep; We leave thee drink by, if thou chance to be dry; Both milk and blood, the dew and the flood. , We breathe in thy bed, at the foot and the head; We cover thee warm, that thou take no harm: And when thou dost wake, Dame Earth shall quake, And the houses shake, And her belly shall...
Page 52 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Page 61 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.
Page 249 - ... her the cities which he fet in flames, the countries which he ravaged and deftroyed, and the miferable diftrefs of all the inhabitants of the earth. When fhe has viewed him in this fcene, carry her into his retirements : fhew her the prophet's chamber, his concubines and wives ; let her fee his adultery, and hear him allege revelation and his divine commiffion to juftify his luft and his oppreffion. When fhe is tired with this profpect, then fhew her the blefled Jefus, humble and meek, doing...
Page 228 - CONGREVE has merit of the highest kind ; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue.
Page 157 - I have been choosing out this scull, From charnel houses, that were full ; From private grots, and public pits : And frighted a sexton out of his wits.