The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 18
... Ovid . Metam . 1. 3. v . 432 . [ From the fable of NARCISSUS . ] What could , fond youth , this helpless passion move ? What kindled in thee this unpitied love ? Thy own warm blush within the water glows ; With thee the colour'd shadow ...
... Ovid . Metam . 1. 3. v . 432 . [ From the fable of NARCISSUS . ] What could , fond youth , this helpless passion move ? What kindled in thee this unpitied love ? Thy own warm blush within the water glows ; With thee the colour'd shadow ...
Page 19
... Ovid tells us of a swinging fellow called Polypheme , that made use of the fea for his looking glass , and could ne- ver dress himself to advantage but in a calm . My friend WILL , to shew us the whole compass of his learning upon this ...
... Ovid tells us of a swinging fellow called Polypheme , that made use of the fea for his looking glass , and could ne- ver dress himself to advantage but in a calm . My friend WILL , to shew us the whole compass of his learning upon this ...
Page 52
... Ovid have copied after him , tells us , that the giants threw Osa upon Olympus , and Pelion upon Offa . He adds an epithet to Pelion ( εἰνοσίφυλλον ) which very much swells the idea , by bringing up to the readers ima- gination all the ...
... Ovid have copied after him , tells us , that the giants threw Osa upon Olympus , and Pelion upon Offa . He adds an epithet to Pelion ( εἰνοσίφυλλον ) which very much swells the idea , by bringing up to the readers ima- gination all the ...
Page 94
... Ovid . Metam . 1. 15. ν . 165 . -All things are but alter'd , nothing dies , And here and there th ' unbody'd fpirit flies , By time , or force , or fickness dispossess'd , And lodges , where it lights , in man or beast . DRYDEN ...
... Ovid . Metam . 1. 15. ν . 165 . -All things are but alter'd , nothing dies , And here and there th ' unbody'd fpirit flies , By time , or force , or fickness dispossess'd , And lodges , where it lights , in man or beast . DRYDEN ...
Page 102
... Ovid . Met . lib . 1. v . 76 . A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet , and then was man design'd ; Confcious of thought , of more capacious breaft , For empire form'd , and fit to rule the reft . T DRYDEN . HE accounts which ...
... Ovid . Met . lib . 1. v . 76 . A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet , and then was man design'd ; Confcious of thought , of more capacious breaft , For empire form'd , and fit to rule the reft . T DRYDEN . HE accounts which ...
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