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... reader would think so , for the sake of the poem I am now ex- amining ; and must further add , that if such empty unsubstantial beings may be ever made use of on this occasion , never were any more nicely imagined , and employed in more ...
... reader would think so , for the sake of the poem I am now ex- amining ; and must further add , that if such empty unsubstantial beings may be ever made use of on this occasion , never were any more nicely imagined , and employed in more ...
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... reader , and to give it that sublime kind of enter- tainment which is suitable to the nature of an heroic poem . Those who are acquainted with Homer's and Virgil's way of writing , cannot but be pleased with this kind of structure in ...
... reader , and to give it that sublime kind of enter- tainment which is suitable to the nature of an heroic poem . Those who are acquainted with Homer's and Virgil's way of writing , cannot but be pleased with this kind of structure in ...
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... reader may observe how just it was , not to omit in the first book the project upon which the whole poem turns ; as also that the prince of the fallen angels was the only proper person to give it birth , and the next to him in dignity ...
... reader may observe how just it was , not to omit in the first book the project upon which the whole poem turns ; as also that the prince of the fallen angels was the only proper person to give it birth , and the next to him in dignity ...
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VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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