The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... poems out of thofe languages , that people generally talked of feeing themselves in wells , fountains , lakes , and ... poem . The defign of this letter is to defire your ⚫ thoughts , SIR , · thoughts , whether there may not alfo be ...
... poems out of thofe languages , that people generally talked of feeing themselves in wells , fountains , lakes , and ... poem . The defign of this letter is to defire your ⚫ thoughts , SIR , · thoughts , whether there may not alfo be ...
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... poem . That day I oft remember , when from fleep I first awak'd , and found myself repos'd Under a fhade , on flow'rs , much wond'ring where And what I was , whence hither brought , and how . Not diftant far from thence a murmuring ...
... poem . That day I oft remember , when from fleep I first awak'd , and found myself repos'd Under a fhade , on flow'rs , much wond'ring where And what I was , whence hither brought , and how . Not diftant far from thence a murmuring ...
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... poem , in preparing the reader for the feveral occurences that arife in it , founds , upon the above mentioned circumftance , the first part of the fifth book . Adam upon his awaking finds Eve ftill afleep , with an unusual difcompofure ...
... poem , in preparing the reader for the feveral occurences that arife in it , founds , upon the above mentioned circumftance , the first part of the fifth book . Adam upon his awaking finds Eve ftill afleep , with an unusual difcompofure ...
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... poem is finely prefaged on this occafion , the particulars of it are fo artfully fhadow'd , that they do not anticipate the story which follows in the ninth book . I fhall only add , that tho ' the vifion itself is founded upon truth ...
... poem is finely prefaged on this occafion , the particulars of it are fo artfully fhadow'd , that they do not anticipate the story which follows in the ninth book . I fhall only add , that tho ' the vifion itself is founded upon truth ...
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... poem , I proceed to the defcription which the poet gives of Raphael . His departure from before the throne , and his flight thro ' the choirs of angels , is finely imaged . As Miton every where fills his poem with circumftances that are ...
... poem , I proceed to the defcription which the poet gives of Raphael . His departure from before the throne , and his flight thro ' the choirs of angels , is finely imaged . As Miton every where fills his poem with circumftances that are ...
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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