The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 7James Crissy, 1832 - Spectator |
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... Iliad , and the Æneid , knows very well , that though they agree in their opinions of the great beauties in those poems , they have nevertheless each of them discovered several master - strokes which have escaped the observation of the ...
... Iliad , and the Æneid , knows very well , that though they agree in their opinions of the great beauties in those poems , they have nevertheless each of them discovered several master - strokes which have escaped the observation of the ...
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... Iliad , where two deities are described as perching on the top of an oak in the shape of vultures . His planting himself at the ear of Eve under the form of a toad , in order to produce vain dreams and imaginations , is a circumstance ...
... Iliad , where two deities are described as perching on the top of an oak in the shape of vultures . His planting himself at the ear of Eve under the form of a toad , in order to produce vain dreams and imaginations , is a circumstance ...
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... Iliad . ( See No. 463. ) Virgil , before the last decisive combat , de- scribes Jupiter in the same manner , as weighing the fates of Turnus and Æneas . Milton , though he fetched this beautiful circumstance from the Iliad and Eneid ...
... Iliad . ( See No. 463. ) Virgil , before the last decisive combat , de- scribes Jupiter in the same manner , as weighing the fates of Turnus and Æneas . Milton , though he fetched this beautiful circumstance from the Iliad and Eneid ...
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... . The poet here seems to have regarded two or three passages in the 18th Iliad , as that in par- ticular , where , speaking of Vulcan , Homer says , that he had made twenty tripods running on golden wheels. 48 No. 327 . THE SPECTATOR .
... . The poet here seems to have regarded two or three passages in the 18th Iliad , as that in par- ticular , where , speaking of Vulcan , Homer says , that he had made twenty tripods running on golden wheels. 48 No. 327 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... Iliad . Milton's fight of angels is wrought up with the same beauty . It is ushered in with such signs of wrath as are suitable to Omnipotence incensed . The first engagement is carried on under a cope of fire , occasioned by the ...
... Iliad . Milton's fight of angels is wrought up with the same beauty . It is ushered in with such signs of wrath as are suitable to Omnipotence incensed . The first engagement is carried on under a cope of fire , occasioned by the ...
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