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The Spectator: ... - Page 104
1737
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - English poetry - 1750 - 674 pages
...rallery to men of more delicacy than greatnefs of genius, by the homeOnefs of fome of his fentiments. But, as I have before faid, thefe are rather to be imputed to the (implicity of the age in which he lived, to which I may alfo add, of that which he defcribed, than...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...rallery to men of more delicacy than grcatnefs of genius, by the homelinefs of fome of his fentimemc. But, as I have before faid, thefe are rather to be imputed to the fimplicity of the age in which he lived, to which 1 may alfo aiid, of that which he defcribed, than...
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A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed ...

John Milton, William Dodd - 1762 - 284 pages
...only avoid fuch Sentiments as are unnatural or affefted, but alfo fuch as are mean and vulgar. Hover has opened a great Field of Raillery to Men of more...rather to be imputed to the Simplicity of the Age in in which he lived, to which I may alfo add, of that which he defcribed, than to any Imperieftion in...
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A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed ...

William Dodd, Joseph Addison - 1762 - 264 pages
...only avoid fuch Sentiments as are unnatural or affefted, but alfo fuch as are mean and vulgar. Ho.er has opened a great Field of Raillery to Men of more...the Homelinefs of fome of his Sentiments. But, as 1 have before faid, thefe are rather to be imputed to the Simplicity of the Age in in which he lived,...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ...

John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...unnatural or affected, but alfo fuch ai are mean and vulgar. Homer has opened a great field of rallery to men of more delicacy than greatnefs of genius, by the homelinefs of fome of his fentiments. But, as I have before faid, thefe are rather to be imputed to the finiplicity of the age...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...only avoid inch Ientiments as are unnatural or affcftcd, but al (6 fuch as are mean and vulgar. Homer has opened a great field of raillery to men of more...delicacy than greatnefs of genius, by the homelinefs of thefe are rather to be imputed to the fimplicity of the age in which he lived, to which I may alfo...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1778 - 336 pages
...raillery to men of more delicacy than greatnefs of ge* nius, by the homelinefs of fome of his fentiments. But, as I have before faid, thefe are rather to be imputed to the fimplicity of the age in which he lived, to which I may alfo add, of that' which he defcribed, than...
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Select British Classics, Volume 14

English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...only avoid such sentiments as are unnatural or affected, but also such as are mean and vulgar. Homer has opened a great field of raillery to men of more delicacy than greatness of genius, by the homeliness of some of his sentiments. But, as I have before said, these...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...only avoid such sentiments as are unnatural or affected, but also such as are mean and vulgar. Homer has opened a great field of raillery to men of more delicacy than greatness of genius, by the homeliness of some of his sentiments. But, as I have before said, these...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 302 pages
...greatness of genius, by the homeliness of some of his sentiments. But as I have before said, these are rather to be imputed to the simplicity of the age in which he lived, to which I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet. Zoiius among the...
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