The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... heav'n : I thither went With unexperienc'd thought , and laid me down On the green bank , to look into the clear Smooth lake , that to me seem'd another sky . As I bent down to look , juft oppofite A fhape within the watry gleam appear ...
... heav'n : I thither went With unexperienc'd thought , and laid me down On the green bank , to look into the clear Smooth lake , that to me seem'd another sky . As I bent down to look , juft oppofite A fhape within the watry gleam appear ...
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... Heav'n wakes with all his eyes , Whom to behold but thee , nature's defire , In whofe fight all things joy , with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty ftill to gaze ! An injudicious poet would have made Adam talk thro ' the whole work in ...
... Heav'n wakes with all his eyes , Whom to behold but thee , nature's defire , In whofe fight all things joy , with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty ftill to gaze ! An injudicious poet would have made Adam talk thro ' the whole work in ...
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... heav'n ; and all this mighty boft In horrible deftruction laid thus low . But fee ! the angry victor bath recall'd His minifters of vengeance and purfuit Back to the gates of heav'n : The fulph'rous hail Shot after us in form , o ...
... heav'n ; and all this mighty boft In horrible deftruction laid thus low . But fee ! the angry victor bath recall'd His minifters of vengeance and purfuit Back to the gates of heav'n : The fulph'rous hail Shot after us in form , o ...
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... , And at his chariot wheels to drag bim bound Threaten'd , nor from the Holy one of heav'n Refrain'd his tongue blafphemous : but anon Down Down cloven to the waste , with shatter'd arms And 54 THE N ° 333 SPECTATOR .
... , And at his chariot wheels to drag bim bound Threaten'd , nor from the Holy one of heav'n Refrain'd his tongue blafphemous : but anon Down Down cloven to the waste , with shatter'd arms And 54 THE N ° 333 SPECTATOR .
Page 55
... heav'n's bafis ; bring forth all my war , My bow and thunder , my almighty arms Gird on , and fword on thy puissant thigh . The reader will eafily discover many other strokes of the fame nature . 3 There is no queftion but Milton had ...
... heav'n's bafis ; bring forth all my war , My bow and thunder , my almighty arms Gird on , and fword on thy puissant thigh . The reader will eafily discover many other strokes of the fame nature . 3 There is no queftion but Milton had ...
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