The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... light , and fhews the difagreeablenefs of fuch actions as are in . different in themselves , and blameable only as they proceed from creatures endowed with reafon . My following correfpondent , who calls herfelf Clarinda , is fuch a ...
... light , and fhews the difagreeablenefs of fuch actions as are in . different in themselves , and blameable only as they proceed from creatures endowed with reafon . My following correfpondent , who calls herfelf Clarinda , is fuch a ...
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... light Shadowy Jets off the face of things : In vain , If none regard . 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 ...
... light Shadowy Jets off the face of things : In vain , If none regard . 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 ...
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... light or trivial . Those who look into Homer , are furpris'd to find his battles ftill rifing one above another , and improving in horror to the conclufion of the Iliad . Milton's fight of angels is wrought up with the fame beauty . It ...
... light or trivial . Those who look into Homer , are furpris'd to find his battles ftill rifing one above another , and improving in horror to the conclufion of the Iliad . Milton's fight of angels is wrought up with the fame beauty . It ...
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... light , would fhew the usefulness and elegance of it , with the pleafure and inftruction pror duc'd from it : and alfo lay down fome fundamental rules , which might fo tend to the improvement of its profeffors , and information of the ...
... light , would fhew the usefulness and elegance of it , with the pleafure and inftruction pror duc'd from it : and alfo lay down fome fundamental rules , which might fo tend to the improvement of its profeffors , and information of the ...
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... light into the motives of this action . Plutarch tells us , that Alexander in his youth had a mafter named Lyfmachus , who , tho ' he was a man deftitute of all politenefs , ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pupil , and ...
... light into the motives of this action . Plutarch tells us , that Alexander in his youth had a mafter named Lyfmachus , who , tho ' he was a man deftitute of all politenefs , ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pupil , and ...
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Adam Æneid affurance alfo angels arife bagnio beautiful becauſe behaviour character chearful chearfulneſs circumftances confequence confider confideration converfation defcribed defcription defign defire difcourfe dreffed faid fame fatire fays fecond fecret feems felf felves fenfe fent fentiments feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething foon fpeak fpirit ftill fubject fublime fuch gentleman give heav'n hiftory himſelf honeft honour houſe humble fervant imagination inftances itſelf juft Jupiter lady laft laſt lefs loft look mafter mankind manner Menippus Milton mind modeft moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never night obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffed paffion Paradife perfon pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poem poet prefent raiſe reader reafon reft reprefented rife ſhall ſhe Sir ROGER ſpeak SPECTATOR tell thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion uſe Virg virtue whofe whole worfe