The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 8James Crissy, 1832 - Spectator |
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... d . ' ) As Virgil's vision in the sixth Æneid proba- bly gave Milton the hint of this whole episode , the last line is a translation of that verse where Anchises mentions the names of places which they were to A 2 No. 369 . THE SPECTATOR .
... d . ' ) As Virgil's vision in the sixth Æneid proba- bly gave Milton the hint of this whole episode , the last line is a translation of that verse where Anchises mentions the names of places which they were to A 2 No. 369 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... that the motion of the gods differs from that of mor- tals , as the former do not stir their feet nor pro- ceed step by step , but slide over the surface of the earth by an uniform swimming of the whole body No. 369 . THE SPECTATOR .
... that the motion of the gods differs from that of mor- tals , as the former do not stir their feet nor pro- ceed step by step , but slide over the surface of the earth by an uniform swimming of the whole body No. 369 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... whole body . The reader may observe with how poeti- cal a description Milton has attributed the same kind of motion to the angels who were to take possession of Paradise . So spake our mother Eve , and Adam heard Well pleas'd , but ...
... whole body . The reader may observe with how poeti- cal a description Milton has attributed the same kind of motion to the angels who were to take possession of Paradise . So spake our mother Eve , and Adam heard Well pleas'd , but ...
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... whole without descending to particulars . I have therefore bestowed a paper upon each book , and endeavoured not only to prove that the poem is beautiful in general , but to point out its par- ticular beauties , and to determine wherein ...
... whole without descending to particulars . I have therefore bestowed a paper upon each book , and endeavoured not only to prove that the poem is beautiful in general , but to point out its par- ticular beauties , and to determine wherein ...
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... whole world acts the player . ' It is certain that if we look all around us , and be- hold the different employments of mankind , you hardly see one , who is not , as the player is , in an assumed character . The lawyer who is vehe ...
... whole world acts the player . ' It is certain that if we look all around us , and be- hold the different employments of mankind , you hardly see one , who is not , as the player is , in an assumed character . The lawyer who is vehe ...
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