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Page 151
... first it is heaved up by feveral Spondees intermixed with proper Breathing- places , and at last trundles down in a continued Line of Dactyles . Kai Καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον , κρατέρ ̓ ἄλγὲ ἔχοντα , Λάαν No. 253. The SPECTATOR . 7.
... first it is heaved up by feveral Spondees intermixed with proper Breathing- places , and at last trundles down in a continued Line of Dactyles . Kai Καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον , κρατέρ ̓ ἄλγὲ ἔχοντα , Λάαν No. 253. The SPECTATOR . 7.
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... proper : Ma- trimony and the Clergy are the Topicks of People of ⚫ little Wit and no Understanding . I own to you I have ← learned of the Vicar's Wife all you tax me with : She is a • difcreet , 6 · · 6 ⚫ difcreet , ingenious ...
... proper : Ma- trimony and the Clergy are the Topicks of People of ⚫ little Wit and no Understanding . I own to you I have ← learned of the Vicar's Wife all you tax me with : She is a • difcreet , 6 · · 6 ⚫ difcreet , ingenious ...
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... proper and genuine Motives to thefe and the like great Actions , would only influence virtuous Minds ; there would be but small Improvements in the World , were not there fome common Principle of Action work- ing equally with all Men ...
... proper and genuine Motives to thefe and the like great Actions , would only influence virtuous Minds ; there would be but small Improvements in the World , were not there fome common Principle of Action work- ing equally with all Men ...
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... think it would be very proper for every Gentleman of an Eftate to mark out fo many Acres of it under the Title of The Pins . H 3 L Friday , FFFSFF3669❀636666333H No. 296. Friday , February 8 . - Nugis No. 295. The SPECTATOR . 165.
... think it would be very proper for every Gentleman of an Eftate to mark out fo many Acres of it under the Title of The Pins . H 3 L Friday , FFFSFF3669❀636666333H No. 296. Friday , February 8 . - Nugis No. 295. The SPECTATOR . 165.
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... proper Name , J. M. 6 I defire you may infert this in one of your Speculations , to fher my Zeal for removing the Diffatisfaction of the Fair Sex , and reftoring you to their Favour . SIR , I Was fome time fince in Company with a young ...
... proper Name , J. M. 6 I defire you may infert this in one of your Speculations , to fher my Zeal for removing the Diffatisfaction of the Fair Sex , and reftoring you to their Favour . SIR , I Was fome time fince in Company with a young ...
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Page 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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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.
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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.
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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.